The reason I first was attracted to Lunarpages is their cheap unlimited plan. For $5/month, you can get their basic hosting plan that includes unlimited storage space, bandwidth, email accounts, databases, add-on domains, sub-domains and ftp accounts. Basically, I don’t need to worry about any of that stuff. Even if I didn’t reach the limits of some more stingy providers, I would no doubt keep myself awake at night worrying about the possibility of one of my sites not appearing tomorrow because the bandwidth limit was reached.

The other reason I chose to risk a 2 year contract with yet another company is the long list of supported technologies. PHP in particular, and all of it’s libraries and extensions. Being that PHP is my language of choice when creating a site, it was a must. But they don’t stop at the bare minimum. Pretty much whatever your platform desires be, they have it.

Lunarpages also has many technologies that are a relief when dealing with a company. For instance their support for unlimited email storage (see above) combined with their support for IMAP and webmail make giving companies their own email address rather than that hobo looking Gmail account they have been printing on their business cards, a treat rather than a hassle. They also support forwarding to any other email address, so no one has to have several different email addresses and passwords and log in pages and and etc. This in particular has been a relief for me given that I maintain several dozen email addresses.

The uptime on the server is pretty good given the price of the service. I would be lying through my teeth if I told you I have never had a few hours of downtime. Luckily, when I do have a problem, I can call their customer support and get through in less than 15 minutes and usually they are already aware of the problem and on their way to fixing it.

Ever since I first saw Lunarpages I have been asking myself, “What’s the catch”. After a year of using them every day, I have yet to find one. The price really is that low. The space really is unlimited. They really are that good. I was even presently surprised the other day when they extended their free Facebook advertising promotion to current customers, otherwise known as me.