So just now I got a Basic Plan account at LunarPages. My site
that’s hosted by LunarPages is LunaRails.com. It’s time to do
something with it…
First impressions: Everything is smooth, running well,
professional, quick, easy. My account got set up in just several
hours. Newly-created subdomain works immediately, very nice. (I
created blog.lunarails.com
just to try WordPress.)
My first steps were creating a WordPress blog at blog.lunarails.com. I used cPanel
to create a subdomain, which immediately works. And then used
Fantastico to create the WordPress. Very simple and easy. Done
under 5 minutes. Although upon first test, I noticed something
“weird,” it’s the blog subtitle originally shown: “Not just
Lunartics… It\”. The actual intended blog subtitle was “Not just
Lunartics… It’s Lunarrific!”
Now, coming from the PHP world, I know exactly why this problem
arises, that dreaded magic_quotes_gpc issue and stuff, that makes
PHP programmers’ life very difficult. I think this maybe the
problem of Fantastico. Note that this issue may be able to cause
security problems. Anyways, fixing this in WordPress admin was easy
& quick. So it’s not a big deal, I guess.
My next plan is to play around with secure site capabilities as
I got a dedicated IP in my LunarPages account. I’ve requested an
SSL certificate from StartCom and still awaiting their
approval. I’m not sure what I’ll make of it but I’ll just do
whatever comes to mind.
Some admin-page screenshots:
So far so good. Got 35 GB of space, 800 GB of bandwidth. Many
things, like databases, subdomains, etc. are virtually unlimited.
Very good value.
UPDATE: Although it doesn’t provide shell
access & Subversion, here’s some general technical specs:
Operating system Linux
Service Status Click to View
Kernel version 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.7
Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl
Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
Installed Perl Modules Click to View
PHP version 5.2.0
MySQL version 5.0.27-standard
cPanel Build 10.9.0-RELEASE 79
Theme cPanel X v2.6.0
Documentation Click to View
cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)