{"id":72,"date":"2005-09-08T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T03:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-09-08T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T03:13:29","slug":"web-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/2005\/09\/08\/web-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Web hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s not always easy finding the best web hosting provider for your websites, so I thought I would recommend the web host company I use. I set up my first website in 1996, and since then I have used several website hosting companies. Initially, I evaluated them based only on features and price. However, a couple of years ago my old web host had a system crash, and incredibly had no recent backups. I had my own local backups, fortunately, but I did lose some email. I immediately started searching around for a new web host, and settled on Lunarpages<\/a> because they had everything I needed at a reasonable price. I thought I should write a little Lunarpages review to help you evaluate the many options for web hosting. (Note that if you sign up with Lunarpages through these links, I will earn a commission — so thanks in advance for supporting Semicolon.)<\/p>\n

The main thing that attracted me to Lunarpages was their excellent support<\/a> — I have used their “online community” extensively, but they also have tutorials, a knowledge base and email support.<\/p>\n

Their features are very good too. Mostly I use PHP, MySQL and Apache of course — these are required to run WordPress. Lunarpages use the excellent CPanel administration interface — this gives you email configuration, web mail, subdomains, statistics, shopping cart, database administration, and about a zillion other things. Lunarpages even provide a pre-installed WordPress installation so you don’t need to download and install it. Of course, advanced users (like me :)) can install their own packages — I use several separate installations of WordPress, as well as a heap of home-grown software. The only big feature they don’t offer is shell access. Initially I was doubtful about this, but I have found that I don’t need it — CPanel’s File Manager does everything I need.<\/p>\n

Overall I am very happy with Lunarpages<\/a>. They have all the technical features I need at a good price, and they have been very responsive and helpful. I certainly plan to use them for my future web hosting needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not always easy finding the best web hosting provider for your websites, so I thought I would recommend the web host company I use. I set up my first website in 1996, and since then I have used several website hosting companies. Initially, I evaluated them based only on features and price. However, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}