Designer’s Choice - Software Package included
Lunarpages founded in 2001 is one of the best solutions. With over 150,000 accounts hosted in datacenters located in Los Angeles, Riverside and Las Vegas, Lunarpages is truly one of the big players out there and all customers seem more than happy to me.
Key features:
| Free domain name registration for the life of the hosting |
| Up to 10 additional add-on domains |
| Unlimited sub-domains |
| Unlimited parked domains |
| Unlimited FTP accounts |
| Unlimited MySQL and Postgre SQL databases |
| Unlimited POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts |
| E-mail SPAM filtering |
| PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby / Ruby on Rails script support |
| SSI - Server Side Includes fully supported |
| Microsoft Frontpage extensions supported |
| Easy to use cPanel control panel |
| Fantastico Script support via control panel |
| 99.9% network uptime |
| Free CoffeeCup Software package ($700 value) |
| 30-day money back guarantee |
Lunarpages offers 8 different Hosting plans:
- Personal Site
- Small Business
- Build a Site
- Windows Hosting
- Dedicated Hosting
- VPS Hosting
- Email & Domain Hosting
- Resell Hosting
In my opinion those hosting plans and their prices pretty much reflect what good hosting will cost. 100% reliable hosting will always cost more than $4,95/month.
If you are a beginner it is a wise choice to pick the cheapest hosting plan and then just wait until you grow. If you are working hard this process will be fast and later on you can use your shared host as a backup server to outsource your smaller, not so important sites.
What makes Lunarpages stand out is that your hosting plan will come a software package that will normally cost you $700. The CoffeCup package includes 22 tools, such as FTP software, Flash Site Builder, Web Jukebox (play music through your site), HTML Editor, Webcam Software and even a color picker to easily create colour schemes for your sites!
For a complete list of all CoffeCup tools click here.