Lunarpages

paperclip · #1 (**permalink**) 29-10-2006, 04:32 AM

I have a friend who's website is hosted by them, he obviously swears by their service, but then again he has never hosted elsewere. Any opinions about lunarpages?

ItsComeToThis · #2 (**permalink**) 29-10-2006, 04:04 PM

Well, I'd never heard of them but I went and did a Google Search to see what they're all about and over all, Id say it was pretty good stuff.

I found some reviews on Epinions, but I cant post a link yet so go to the site and search 'lunarpages' or go to google and type in 'lunarpages reviews' it will be the first answer that is returned.

paperclip · #3 (**permalink**) 29-10-2006, 04:51 PM

Thanks for that. I will look at those reviews. I went through their site and looks pretty good, but I hve never paid for hosting so what looks good to my might not be that great if you catch my drift.

brian · #4 (**permalink**) 30-10-2006, 01:40 PM

A couple of things that really bug me about Lunar Pages are:

a) They won't host vbulletin, claiming it's a resource hog
b) Pre-payment for a year in advance

Both issues have completely put me off hosting with them, especially the vbulletin issue - it takes a pretty big forum to be resource intensive, so can be easily perceived as simply trying to stuff the servers.

2c.

monaghan · #5 (**permalink**) 30-10-2006, 01:46 PM

Odd that someone won't host a specific bit of software, I could understand it if it was known to be full of security holes or needed a different PHP setup or something along those lines.

brian · #6 (**permalink**) 30-10-2006, 02:15 PM

Yes, I've heard common host complaints about YaBB CGI - a flat file database forum platform. Maybe that's understandable. But not vbulletin.

paperclip · #7 (**permalink**) 31-10-2006, 02:58 PM

Well, that's exactly what I am looking for. I am not planning on hosting a board any time soon, but is good to know they won't let me.

Any other good/bads?