There is no doubt that Lunarpages is the home of many different web hosting solutions, however the one that seems to gain the most praise is the Basic hosting plan, used most often for personal web sites or small businesses.  At £2.99 per month there is no way you can get more bang for your buck at any other web host out there on the planet.

Key Web Hosting Features

Not only do you get unlimited disk space and bandwidth to manage your web sites under,you can also host multiple domains from the same web hosting plan.  You also get support for the latest (yet most secure) server side technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Apache, Sever Side Includes and more.

E-Mail Support

Lunarpages does not let you down when it comes to managing your e-mail either.  POP3, SMTP and IMAP are all supported.  You also get two different e-mail clients (Squirrel Mail and RoundCube) to mange your e-mails on the go.

Server Side Technology

With tape backups, 99.9% uptime experienced, and 24/7 server monitoring, Lunarpages is the king when it comes to delivering you a stable and secure shared hosting server to host your web site.

Extras and Freebies from Lunarpages

Oh, so you need a few extra reasons to go with the Basic hosting plan?  How about a free 3 month trial to KeepIt (which can be found nowhere else), over £394 worth of software and scripts, and a whole lot more.

As you can see, no other web host out there can stack up with the dependability, value in comparison with price or any other feature you can scale against any other web host out there.  The Lunarpages Basic hosting plan is the leader of the pack when it comes to being the best hosting solution out there.

You have your standard unlimited disk space and unmetered bandwidth that ever Lunarpages Business hosting plan user uses and loves.  The hosting plan also comes with add-on domain support, 30-day money back guarantee, support for MySQL databases, online user statistics and so much more.

You can now even get the Miva shopping cart and e-commerce solution bundled in with your hosting plan for 12.50 per month (£45 one time set up fee).

Bonus Hosting Features Include:

• Access to a TremenDesk Account (a £256.50 per-year value)
• Instant SSL Certificate for Free
• Free Dedicated IP Address

What is the total cost to you?  Only £10.99 per month.  With everything this hosting plan provides, that is indeed one great bargain.  With unlimited storage and bandwidth, as well as all the other great hosting features, this is one hosting plan you can’t pass on.

What does the hosting plan specs look like?  Well, they provide up to 5,000 MB of storage and 400 GB per month of bandwidth.  For any Windows loving webmaster – that should be more than enough room and bandwidth to get you going.

Some other features include:

• MS SQL Databases = Unlimited
• MySQL Databases = Unlimited
• Add-on Domains = 1
• Sub Domains = Unlimited
• FTP Account = Included
• Online User Statistic = Included
• ASP.net Support  = Included
• CGI Support  = Included
• PHP Support = Included
• and much MUCH more web hosting necessities!

What are you waiting for?

If you haven’t do so yet, be sure to check out the prices for Lunarpages.co.uk and the Windows hosting platform.  I can almost guarantee that will not disappoint you at all.  They are the best and the business, and as they say – solutions reside with them.

If not, August is time for you to roll into action. If you have been considering a website revitalization, now is the time to act. Did you know that the average person gives you only about eight seconds to capture their interest once they’ve landed on your website? And, over 40% of people say they will not do business with a company that does not have an internet presence? Even more interesting, a study by the preeminent Forrester Research indicates that a website redesign can yield a Return-On-Investment of anywhere from 70-500 percent!

Once you have a web destination that will effectively convert visitors into (offline or online) buyers, the crucial next step is to not believe that if you ‘build it and they will come.’ Virtually all companies see minuscule revenues when they follow that reasoning. Instead, your job is to make sure people find you among the millions of websites out there.

Listen to this startling statistic from the consultancy Accenture: 87 percent of adults that purchase offline have been somehow influenced in that purchase online. Being found online is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity. And the fastest route to success is to use the services of a powerhouse digital advertising agency, such as our partner LocalDirective, to set you up with a highly effective Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or Search Engine Optimization (SEO) program.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in the major national and (potentially local or vertical) search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing can get you results immediately. The ultimately controllable directional advertising, it is perfect for companies whose products and services are only purchased when needed. For instance, a plumber could not persuade someone to buy his services if they are not needed.

Google says that up to thousands can be earned for each dollar spent in search engine marketing. Many advertisers report a high ROI as compared to most (if not all) other forms of advertising.

Be sure to check out our website for information about our search engine marketing programs and learn more about how to get ready for a burst of revenue growth, call 1.888.613.7174 or email LocalDirective at CustomLP@LocalDirective.com today. We’ll make sure you aren’t left behind during the fall selling season!

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*Please note that the above offer is only available to customers within the USA

Some Interesting Tips

• Did you know – you can minimize your exposure to PCI-DSS compliance requirements by using a hosted payment application to process online transaction from your website? A hosted payment solution is simple to integrate, and provides a safe, secure, and efficient way to process credit card data. The sensitive transaction data is stored with your processor and not within your store environment, protecting your customers and minimizing your risk.

• Adding payments to your existing Web site, while maintaining the look and feel your site already has is easier than you think. By using the First Data Global Gateway Web Service API solution, which leverages XML/SOAP-based messaging technology, you can easily integrate the payments portion of your online shopping environment with the shopping carts, order management, accounting software or other applications you already have. By providing a seamless online shopping experience, your customers don’t have to leave your site to complete a purchase.

• Did you know - payment alternatives to debit and credit are expected to grow to 30% over the next 4 years? Giving customers multiple payment options such as PayPal, Google Checkout or eCheck, increases the likelihood that a customer will complete the purchase and not abandon their cart. Industry studies show that by adding more than two payment alternatives to your checkout can increase sales conversions by 14%.

• A payment gateway provides your website with simple acceptance of electronic payment transactions and leveraging the gateway’s online transaction administration tool enables you to manage your payment transactions more effectively. This tool should provide a Transaction Terminal for manual processing of orders taken over the phone or face to face. It should also provide access to extensive transaction reporting and administrative tools that manage your business the way you want.

• Online fraud is one of the biggest concerns that merchants have today, accounting for over $3.3 billion in lost revenue in 2009. Additionally, merchants reject, on average, about 2.4% of all orders due to the suspicion of fraud. How can you prevent these losses and potential good orders that are rejected (false-positives)? By leveraging a fraud scoring and management solution, you are able to identify fraudulent transactions, score them according to your business requirements, and track these scores over time to more effectively accept or reject order transactions to get the highest rate or return by minimizing losses and accepting more good transactions.

Learn More

How Much do you LOVE Lunarpages?

Two weeks ago we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest and we received so many innovative, creative and hilarious entries. One of our staff members submitted a poem just for laughs (of course our staff cannot win any prizes).

“I love Lunarpages” by Brian Furphy

When my website was ready to go online,
I called up Lunarpages, just in time.
They listened very carefully to all my needs.
The best technical support with no extra fees.
I needed email and I didn’t want SPAM,
SEO for my site and a database plan,
a new domain and a dedicated IP,
Lunarpages made this all easy for me.
I love Lunarpages more and more every day,
I love them very much, but, in a platonic way.

It was our task to try and pick our top 3 favorites, which was extremely hard by the way and the results are in.

The first and second week’s winners of 12 months of Basic Web Hosting are:

David Miles
Kalamazoo, MI
www.davidmiles.us
Hosted with Lunarpages for 9 years

I started hosting with Lunarpages probably 9 years ago when I first decided to set up my own website. In that time my website needs may have changed but Lunarpages hasn’t! They have always been reliable, quick to address my issues, easy to use, affordable, expandable, … it should suffice to say that no matter what my web needs I feel confident that Lunarpages will be able to meet them now and in the future. I hope to be hosting with Lunarpages for years to come! Thanks! LP crew!

Michael Hernandez
Loma Linda, ca
www.foto-genic.com
Hosted with Lunarpages for almost 1 year

Easy signup and an incredibly easy to use control panel as well as hosting and domain name registration all in one. Lunarpages Rocks!!!!

Ian Flynn
UK
www.flynnstudio.com
Hosted with Lunarpages for 3 years

I love Lunarpages, my Lambretta loves Lunarpages…so much we rode all the way to the moon to take this photo. Just to show our love.

The second week’s winners of 12 months of Basic Web Hosting are:

Jacqueline Lasahn
California
www.astrospirit.com
Hosted with Lunarpages for 4 years, 3 months

On my behalf, my web designer, Evanne Grate researched for an affordable web hosting service with a top notch reputation. This is part of what she wrote me: “My research included extensive Google Searches for top web hosts, then visiting various web developer forums I belong to including Sitepoint, WebDeveloper, DevShed, WebHosting and detailed searching for feedback regarding web hosts. I also called my top choices to see what the response time was regarding phone support. And finally, I went back to Google and did a search on my top choices using “problems w/” to see what comes up. I also found a couple of good sites that provide user feedback/reviews regarding the web hosts. I also considered other factors such as length of time that a web host has been providing service. I also ensured that I found independent reviews b/c oftentimes some of the ranking sites are sponsored by web hosting companies.” You can easily draw the correct conclusion – Lunarpages rose to the top!

I am a satisfied with my choice. I Love Lunarpages!

Sean McMenemy
Lombard, IL
www.seanfx.com
Hosted with Lunarpages for years and years, I’ve lost count

Lunarpages simply makes it easy for me to do whatever I need to do, to make my website happen. It’s the only service I recommend to anyone!

Gerald Wall
Dacula, GA
www.jerrywalldesigns.com
Hosted with Lunarpages for 6 years

If it weren’t so great I wouldn’t of stayed so long. You make hosting a site so easy.

How do you enter?

Grab your camera, put on a happy face, and send us your best photo that creatively displays not only you, but a sign that says “I Love Lunarpages!” And, back it up with a glowing testimonial!

We have even created a few signs you can download and print out to hold when you take your photo.

Sign1

Sign2

Sign3

Sign4

Hint: Lunarpages is one word and the p is lower case

Reminder: It must be a photo of YOU!

Just because your testimonial was not selected this week does not mean you are still not in the running for the grand prize of an iPad or the weekly web hosting prizes, so keep ‘em coming!

A reminder of the prizes:

• Grand prize – one (1) Apple 16GB Wi-Fi iPad (a USD$499.00 value) plus12 months of Free Web Hosting on the Lunarpages Basic Plan
• Weekly prizes – for six (6) weeks we will choose 3 weekly winners to receive 12 months of Free Web Hosting on the Lunarpages Basic Plan

Everyone has a chance to win (providing you are a lunarpages customer and meet the terms and conditions), and the more unique images and testimonials you enter, the more chances you have!

Enter Now!

By Amy Armitage

Last week we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest and we received so many innovative, creative and hilarious entries. One of our staff members submitted a poem just for laughs (of course our staff cannot win any prizes).

“I love Lunarpages” by Brian Furphy

When my website was ready to go online,
I called up Lunarpages, just in time.
They listened very carefully to all my needs.
The best technical support with no extra fees.
I needed email and I didn’t want SPAM,
SEO for my site and a database plan,
a new domain and a dedicated IP,
Lunarpages made this all easy for me.
I love Lunarpages more and more every day,
I love them very much, but, in a platonic way.

It was our task to try and pick our top 3 favorites, which was extremely hard by the way and the results are in.

The first week’s winners of 12 months of Basic Web Hosting are:

David Miles
Kalamazoo, MI
www.davidmiles.us
Hosted with Lunarpages for 9 years

I started hosting with Lunarpages probably 9 years ago when I first decided to set up my own website. In that time my website needs may have changed but Lunarpages hasn’t! They have always been reliable, quick to address my issues, easy to use, affordable, expandable, … it should suffice to say that no matter what my web needs I feel confident that Lunarpages will be able to meet them now and in the future. I hope to be hosting with Lunarpages for years to come! Thanks! LP crew!

Michael Hernandez
Loma Linda, ca
www.foto-genic.com
Hosted with Lunarpages for almost 1 year

Easy signup and an incredibly easy to use control panel as well as hosting and domain name registration all in one. Lunarpages Rocks!!!!

Ian Flynn
UK
www.flynnstudio.com
Hosted with Lunarpages for 3 years

I love Lunarpages, my Lambretta loves Lunarpages…so much we rode all the way to the moon to take this photo. Just to show our love.

How do you enter?

Grab your camera, put on a happy face, and send us your best photo that creatively displays not only you, but a sign that says “I Love Lunarpages!” And, back it up with a glowing testimonial!

Hint: Lunarpages is one word and the p is lower case

Just because your testimonial was not selected this week does not mean you are still not in the running for the grand prize of an iPad or the weekly web hosting prizes, so keep ‘em coming!

A reminder of the prizes:

• Grand prize – one (1) Apple 16GB Wi-Fi iPad (a USD$499.00 value) plus12 months of Free Web Hosting on the Lunarpages Basic Plan
• Weekly prizes – for six (6) weeks we will choose 3 weekly winners to receive 12 months of Free Web Hosting on the Lunarpages Basic Plan

Everyone has a chance to win (providing you are a lunarpages customer and meet the terms and conditions), and the more unique images and testimonials you enter, the more chances you have!

Enter Now!

Details can be viewed here

Unlimited Website Hosting

Lunarpages Basic and Business web hosting now offers Unlimited Add-On Domain Hosting. This means you can host 100 sites or 1000 sites, all through the same web hosting control panel. This could save you over £60/year!!

Unlimited website hosting is a great new features, so feel free to use XMAS15 to take advantage of this offer! With 1500GB storage, 15000GB bandwidth, Unlimited Hosting, Unlimited Emails, Free Domain, and more, you really have no reason to wait on web hosting!

To find these hidden tools, you can visit their site directly and check out the small blue link at the bottom that says Free Webmaster Tools.

So if you need free SEO advice and software, want to try a demo of Lunarpages brand new, still-in-Beta web design software, or even want to learn more about Lunarpages services like Free CrazyEgg Tracking Software before you buy, you needn’t look any further! Lunarpages Web Hosting offers one page for all of UK SEO needs, and they make it easy to learn every aspect of Search Engine Optimization, from Meta Tags and Web Design to Site Tracking and beyond.

And if you’re ready to sign up with Lunarpages, use coupon code LunarSavings for £12 off any 2 year shared basic and windows and £12 off 12/24 business and ecommerce hosting! You won’t find a better Lunarpages discount anywhere on the web.