Skyrocket above and beyond terrestrial hosts with Lunarpages, our "TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award" winner. This host offers applications that support ecommerce, multimedia, educational and informational sites with free interactive ad-ins like forums, chat, blogs and surveys. Additionally, this is the only host in our review that offers unlimited email accounts.

Lunarpages has recently upgraded their data transfer rate and now offers you 3500 GB, as well as 350 GB of storage which far surpasses any other service we reviewed. In addition you now have up to 10 add'on domains included with the basic plan which means that you can host 11 sites on one plan.

Feature Set:

Lunarpage's Shuttle Shared Plan offers just about every feature and ability that anybody, hosting any type of site, could ever want. Plus, this host supports a generous amount of storage at 35,000 MB and 800 gigabytes of data transfer per month. This plan also includes one free add-on domain, unlimited POP3 email accounts and features that support ecommerce as well as applications to assist online educators, auctioneers, and just about everybody else.

Moodle is included for educators and PHPAuction for online auctions. In addition, the Shuttle plan includes a long list of extremely useful features such as, Fantastico Script Library, a FAQ builder, Image and Coppermine Photo Gallery. It also includes the ability to support up to three blogs, chat and SMF forums-just to list a few. Lunarpage offers many more features with the basic plan.

Lunarpages supported programs include PHP, Perl, FrontPage, MySQL, PostgresSQL databases and a CGI directory, and they are one of the few top hosts that support ASP (for an extra $1/month).

In terms of reliability they boast 99.9% uptime, 2,000 Mbit Connectivity, tape backup, a power generator to protect against power outages, Ddos protection and 24/7/365 server monitoring.

If you are interested in hosting a site that requires multimedia support, Lunarpages provides streaming video and audio support, Real Media audio and video, as well as flash, shockwave and MIDI capabilities.

Lunarpages offers an array of email capabilities, including forwarding, auto responders, two forms of web mail, catchall, spam protection and SMTP. Lunarpages also supports sub-domains in a "www.subdomain.website.com" format.

For eCommerce they offer Zen, osCommcerce and Cube shopping carts as well as Open PGP /GPG encryption and a shared SSL Certificate.

Lunarpages offers other features not listed and is capable of hosting most sites efficiently, and includes about any tool you could need, from surveys to running classifieds.

Customer Service:

Lunarpages offers several support options, such as email, support tickets (a method to index your past questions and resolutions in case of reoccurrence), live-chat rooms, forum style (not one-on-one; there may be several different support techs available at once) and toll-free telephone support.

However, telephone support is not available 24/7, so if you have a problem late in the day or on a weekend, you will have to resort to email. An email response could take up to 24 hours. The support staff proved responsive and new accounts are set up quickly and professionally.

One unique support option that Lunarpages provides is an online forum comprised of customers that share experiences and advice. Lunarpages also offers over 50 online tutorials, FAQs, an online control panel manual and a glossary.

Control Panel:

Lumarpages uses a Cpanel that contains most of what you need to manage your site, including the ability to park domains, create subdomains, add-on domains and email accounts as well as filter and forward email. From this panel you can also monitor site traffic and the guest books, forums and contact lists. The Cpanel displays over 40 icons that link to many website management functions and are arranged intuitively and logically.

Summary:

Lunarpages does everything and does it well-all for $6.95 a month. They also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee and comprehensive customer and technical support.

With Lunarpages as your web host, you can expect reliable service and launch a powerful, interactive website.