Lunarpages Review: My First Web Host.

Choosing your first web host can be a difficult decision, especially if you are cost conscious and looking for a good deal. A search for “best web host” returns nothing but web sites marketing companies that you’ve barely heard of, and horror stories about terrible service and crashing web servers.

I chose lunarpages for my first web host and I’m happy to say that it is a decision I don’t regret. I had narrowed my list down to Yahoo (a name I trust), Hostgator (a host that received a lot of recommendations from a web masters forum) and lunarpages (also a host I heard about on a webmasters forum). Back then cost was a major issue and most deals required a 12 month contract so I ended up choosing between lunarpages and Hostgator. I read good things about both hosts but the excellent pre-sales service I received on lunarpages forum sealed the deal.

Lunarpages highlights “reliable web hosting and great customer service” on their homepage, and in my experience they live up to this claim. Even though I have worked with computers for years, I was initially confused by some of the cPanel options. cPanel is a web based interface, designed to make administration of websites easy and is used by many hosting providers. Support was quick to help me get everything set up correctly, and I can honestly say I have not needed to contact them again in my first 9 months of service. I haven’t experienced an outage (at least one that I am aware of) and my first 9 months have been smooth sailing.

Since I signed up lunarpages has improved their basic hosting plan to include 1,500 Gigs Storage, 15,000 Gigs Data Transfer and unlimited add-on domains. This is a great deal for $6.95 per month and you get a free domain for life! If you are in the market for reliable basic hosting at a great price be sure to add lunarpages to your shortlist.

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