Monday, November 30, 2009

Look Back at Great Web Hosting Scripts

On the Lunarpages blog this month we have been discussing some of the greatest scripts out there that you can install on just about any web hosting plan Lunarpages offers to you.  For those who might have missed it, here is a roundup of all the third-party script reviews we did over the month of [...]

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

How to Save a Trace Route to a .txt File

When it comes to running a trace route, some people become confused on how you get that trace route from your command prompt window to your uber-friendly support team.  The easiest method would be to save the trace route as a .txt file, so you could copy the data, and paste it in your e-mail [...]

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

50% OFF New Basic Hosting Plans – Thanksgiving Savings!

You do not have to wait till Black Friday to pick up a great web hosting deal.  Right now, if you use the coupon code Thanks you can save 50% on a new Basic hosting plan. 
I could write a million and one words on how great the Basic hosting plan is, however nothing beats [...]

Monday, November 23, 2009

Best phpBB Web Host Out There?

Could Lunarpages in fact be the greatest phpBB web host out there?  I would say so.  For those of you who do not know, phpBB is one of the most widely used open source forum solutions to date.  It’s user friendly installation process and easy to use administration panel has made it one of [...]

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Magento Hosting Comes to Lunarpages

As a professional and open-source e-commerce solution, Magento is offering your online store access to unprecedented flexibility and control.  You can also get it up and running here with Lunarpages, if you are using one of our new LPCP controlled accounts.
What Makes Magento So Great?
Where Magento really shines is it’s modular architecture.  It really puts [...]

Monday, November 16, 2009

Create Your Own .htaccess with LPCP

Over the past year or so, a lot of people have enjoyed the write-up on how to create your own .htaccess file from within cPanel, so I figured I would give the same sage words of advice for everybody out there using the LPCP control panel.
To create a .htaccess file in LPCP, log into the [...]

Friday, November 13, 2009

Hosting with osCommerce

One of the most widely used shopping cart scripts out there is osCommerce.  It gives the shop owner an open-source online e-commerce solution.  You might have already known that, however did you know a number of our web hosting plans come with a way to get it installed in a single click?  Lunarpages is a [...]

Thursday, November 12, 2009

E-Commerce Hosting with Zen Cart

The free, user-friendly and open source shopping cart software, Zen Cart is perfect for any e-commerce web site hosted at Lunarpages.  With the thoughts of shop owners, programmers, designers and more in mind, Zen Cart is one of the best third-party shopping cart scripts out there.

You can easily install Zen Cart one of three ways.  [...]

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

PHPlist Hosting with Lunarpages

One of the world’s best open-source newsletter managers can be installed a number of different ways, here at Lunarpages.  PHPlist is a free script that will handle all your  newsletter or mailing lists for you.  It is downloaded over 10,000 tie per month â€" and is possibly one of the most popular open-source scripts [...]

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

7 Reasons to Love the New Intel Core i7 Dedicated Hosting Plan

Lunarpages is not only a leader in the shared and VPS hosting world, they are also a juggernaut when it comes to dedicated hosting servers too.  The newest member to the dedicated hosting plan family is the new i7 Dedicated hosting plan.  What is so special?  I am going to give you seven reasons [...]

Monday, November 9, 2009

SMF Web Hosting at Lunarpages

Possibly one of the best forum scripts out there to date, Simple Machines Forum, is more than welcome to be hosted here at Lunarpages, on many of our web hosting plans.   It is a free, professional grade software package that will have you setup with your own online community in just seconds. 

How [...]

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Get Your Joomla Hosting on at Lunarpages

The award winning content management system, which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications is more than welcome at Lunarpages.  Joomla is all that, and so much more.  For people looking for an easy to use and powerful script to manage their digital empire, Joomla is a good way to go. [...]

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Save $60 on Quicksite Hosting

Here to help you save some cash (because the holidays are coming up quick!) Lunarpages has done it again with another fantastic offer. For a limited time only, you can grab your own Quicksite hosting plan for only $9.95 per month, if you sign up for the 12 month billing term.  Just think about [...]

Vanilla Web Forum Hosting at Lunarpages

Lunarpages fully supports the lightweight and simple Vanilla forum script.  What is Vanilla?  It is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the Web. 
While it is not supported via the cPanel’s Fantastico or LPCP’s WebApps manager, the script is simple enough for anybody to download, setup and install in minutes.  For [...]

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Save $72 on Business Hosting at Lunarpages

For a limited time only, we are dropping the price for our e-commerce enabled juggernaut of a web hosting plan, the Business hosting plan, to $18.95 per month, if you sign up for a new 24 month plan.  How much money will that save you?  It cuts the price, and save you $72 â€" [...]

Get bbPress Hosting at Lunarpages

Yesterday, we took a look at WordPress, so today I figured we would check out it’s message board (and less popular) brother from another mother, bbPress.  Forum software can often be slow, bloated and filled with holes â€" however bbPress is the total opposite.  It is focused around being easy to use, speedy, and [...]

Monday, November 2, 2009

WordPress Hosting at Lunarpages

All this month, on the Lunartics blog, we are going to be highlighting some of our favorite third party scripts.  From image galleries to message boards, there will be a little something for everybody.  To get things started, I thought I would discuss with you why WordPress is my absolute favorite blogging script.
WordPress truly [...]