http://www.bluehost.com and http://www.lunarpages.com
Plan Features and Pricing
BlueHost offers a one stop hosting solution that meets the needs of personal and business websites. Their hosting plan has many great highlights for as little as $6.95 per month. Some of the highlights include: unlimited hosting space, file transfer and domain name hosting, 2500 POP Email accounts, SSH, SSL, FTP, websites statistics, CGI, RoR, PHP, Perl, 50 MySQL databases and FrontPage Extensions. There are many free and bonus features including: Ad credits, website promotion, free scripts and a free domain name.
LunarPages offers shared, VPS and dedicated hosting services. For this comparison we will focus on shared hosting solutions. Their most basic hosting plan is priced at as little as $4.95 per month (under current promotion). This plan highlights 1500GB of storage and 15,000GB of Data Transfer, unlimited databases and emails. Features include: Microsoft FrontPage, PHP, CGI-Bin, RoR, SSI and ecommerce solutions. This hosting package compares well to the all-inclusive plan offered by BlueHost. BlueHost offers more disk space and bandwidth, while LunarPages offers more email accounts and databases.
LunarPages also offers a Windows Hosting Plan. BlueHost does not offer any additional hosting packages. Some of the highlights of the LunarPages Windows plan include: pricing as low as $9.95 per month, 5000MB of storage, 400GB of data transfer, unlimited email and databases, SPAM protection, ecommerce features and other scripts, and FrontPage Compatible. This hosting plan offers significantly less storage and data transfer than BlueHost’s plan.
Reliability
Both BlueHost and LunarPages offer reliable hosting solutions. BlueHost customers benefit from quality hosting equipment and an excellent infrastructure, 24/7 monitoring, data backups and a high level of security. Customers benefit from a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Their hosting plans are housed on quad processor performance servers. UPS power backup and diesel generators provide continuous power to the servers. BlueHost customers benefit from excellent connections with the OC-48 Backbone connection.
LunarPages clients benefit from three datacenters. The datacenters are state-of-the art providing the highest level of security and performance. Benefits of the data center include high power networks, redundant AC/DC UPS power, generator backups, fire suppression and more. The hosting infrastructure is monitored by skilled technicians 24/7. If there is a problem they will spot the problem and create a solution as quickly as possible.
Support
BlueHost offers excellent customer care to their clients. They provide sales and technical support that can be accessed 24/7. Toll free telephone support, chat support and ticket support are available. Customers receive fast and friendly responses. Lunarpages also offers 24/7 customer support that has won many awards. They have over 120 professionals throughout their business who are able to assist customers. Support ticket support is available. Telephone support is offered by LunarPages, although their telephone support is not toll free.
General Aspects
BlueHost customers will benefit from a package that offers unlimited bandwidth, disk space and even the ability to host unlimited domain names. BlueHost is best known for providing professional hosting services to meet the needs of individual and ecommerce websites. Their hosting package is available for as little as $6.95 each month.
LunarPages is an award winning hosting provider best known for their superb customer care and their reliable and powerful hosting solutions. They offer an array of hosting solutions including: shared, dedicated and VPS. Pricing is always affordable providing customers with the most value for their money.
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