Lunarpages

[Sergio]

I know for a fact that Lunarpages rarely has downtime. I used to be part of a forum that was on LunarPages and it was pretty fast and it was never down. But the forum is like 2 years old. So I was wondering if anyone has signed up recently, is the hosting just as good with new accounts or has their quality gone down?

By the way, I want it to host a forum that gets around 700 uniques and there's usually around +20 online. The bandwidth is usually around 500-700mb per day.

[Kasami2k4]

I read the quality is still awesome =p But they don't host me soo.. no personal experience.

[Sergio]

I think I will go for them. Now I just need money. =P

[geg2]

Are you interested in their shared hosting, vps, or dedicated? I have used both their shared and vps in the past year. I don't know anything about their dedicated servers.

[geg2]

In terms of their shared hosting, I had no real complaints. They have cPanel but no awstats. If you want awstats, you have to download the server logs and run awstats on your local PC. If you are overburdening their server on a shared host, they do not just pull the plug on you suddenly. They isolate your website on a functional temporary webserver. This moving of the website does cause downtime due to DNS information propagation. The main complaint I would have for their shared hosting is that their phone support is not 24 x 7.

Their VPS comes with Plesk. You need to know some UNIX if you choose not to go with managed services. For support on their VPS plan, I found that live chat was the fastest and best. Their live chat personnel is usually around during the day and evenings.

[Sergio]

I was looking into their shared hosting. Thanks for the info.

I thought a dedicated server and VPS was the same thing, what's the difference?

[geg2]

With a dedicated server, you are the only customer on that webserver.

With VPS, you share the hardware among anywhere from eight to sixteen customers. Each customer on a VPS has his or her own "virtual" webserver running its own OS. That means whatever happens to your OS does not affect anyone else's OS. You can reboot the webserver without causing interruption to anyone else. A VPS is essentially multiple virtual servers running on one hardware server.

By the way, concerning overloading the shared hosting plan, while Lunarpages moves you to a temporary webserver, they will ask you to upgrade the hosting plan to vps/dedicated or to another host.

By overloading, they specified that it was CPU and memory usage, not bandwidth.

[omen]

Shoemoney interviewed Lunarpages on webmasterradio, I suggest you check it out.

[Sergio]

Just so everyone knows, LunarPages is awesome. I'm not taking too many resources so maybe that's why it's very fast. But I was going through my Wordpress Dashboard and it almost felt as if it was hosted on my own computer.

[Dunno]

Just so everyone knows, LunarPages is awesome. I'm not taking too many resources so maybe that's why it's very fast. But I was going through my Wordpress Dashboard and it almost felt as if it was hosted on my own computer.

With hosting accounts you need to look at one main thing, if you run a mysql database and what the max connections allowed to it. If you users online
exceeds the max connections or has the potential to you are wasting your
time. Besides the normal stuff, but Lunarpages is decent except from my experience they run their mysql servers on the same boxes, in that case the
server speed can lag do to all them accounts on the same box.

My thought anyways.

[pimpyourdino]

i have a shared plan the basic plan with 3tb bandwidth and its great accept the server crashed when i first started due to a storm but all my files were fine