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Lunarpages was founded by Ron Riddle in the late 90s. What was initially a free hosting service quickly evolved into a successful and rapidly growing, commercial hosting platform. Approximately 120,000 sites are hosted on Lunarpages servers today. Lunarpages is now the shared hosting division of Add2Net. Lunarpagesī founder Ron Riddle launched a program under which all public schools K-12 in the US receive a free hosting account.

Hosting features at Lunarpages.com

Lunarpages is special as it is one of the few affordable web hosts which offers its customers both Linux and Windows hosting plans. For transfer customers Lunarpages will add the remaining duration of your current hosting contract to their account - up to a period of 6 months. Additionally, transfer customers receive a 90-day money back guarantee. With each hosting plan you receive a free license worth $700 for the Coffee Cup web design software.

The bandwidth on the Windows hosting plan is lower at 400gigs/month and storage at 5GB. Under the Windows plan you can only add-on 1 domain whereas the Linux plan allows you to add on 10 domains. On both hosting plans you receive unlimited FTP accounts, email and MySQL databases. The Linux plan supports the most common programming languages like Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby on Rails. In addition the easy install, Fantastico free script library is included. Lunarpages gives itīs customers a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Lunarpages customer service

Lunarpages has many great sources to solve customerīs problems. If youīre confident you can manage on your own you can consult the knowledge base, the Lunarpages community forum, the online tutorials, the FAQ, the glossary, or the control panel manual. If you need direct assistance you can reach Lunarpages support staff via phone, or by opening a support ticket. Under the contact page you can take a look at the customer service staff. This showcases the open, customer driven spirit at Lunarpages which has been recognised by many different Awards.

Lunarpages technical information

Lunarpages has 1500 Dell Power Edge 2650 servers distributed across two data centers. The servers use 6 GB memory quad Xeon 2.4 GHz Xeon processors and three 70 GB Raid disk drives giving them an edge over most of the competitors. The Lunarpages BGP4 fiber network is multi-homed on 150 different carriers. This powerful technical setup guarantees that Lunarpages keeps their uptime promise and your site will run smoothly.

Hosting plans

Lunarpages Linux and Unix plans:
Base Plan: 350 GB storage and 3500 GB transfer, $6.95/month
Business hosting: unlimited storage and 3500 GB transfer, $21.95/month
Virtual Private Servers: 20 GB storage and 1000 GB transfer, $39.95/month
Dedicated Servers: 80-200 storage and 1000-2000 GB transfer, $39.95/month

Lunarpages Windows plan:
Windows hosting: 5 GB storage and 400 GB transfer, $8.95/month

Lunarpages coupons:
25OffHosting - $25 off all of the 12/24 months hosting plans
2FreeMonths - will add on two additional months to the end of your hosting plan

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