Comments on: Why You Shouldn’t Host at LunarPages

By: Insider

Insider — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:26:50 +0000

I’m sure they’ll respond to your “urgent” email in 48 hours giving you generally useless information but closing with a cheerful “don’t hesitate to contact us again if there is something else we can do for you.”

Lunar Pages = Loser Pages

By: A Senior Administration Official

A Senior Administration Official — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:19:01 +0000

Although we moved Independent Sources, I left a personal site at Lunarpages. That’s looking like a mistake — even though they finally moved it back to a production server, no one in my family can access their POP email accounts.

By: Insider

Insider — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:29:38 +0000

Plus when you outsource to a third party like Lunar Pages you get to get the occasional email telling you that because of excess CPU usage you’ve been moved to a “production” server. This in fact means that your site is now shut off from the world, you have no recourse, you are not allowed to fix the problem, and you need to be prepared to be down for the next 2-3 frustrating days.

By: A Senior Administration Official

A Senior Administration Official — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:27:15 +0000

I’ve thought about hosting ourselves, but the little things you get w/ hosting — no worries about hard drive crashes, hassle-free backup, scalability, security — that make me happy to let some one else take care of it.

By: Moonage

Moonage — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:16:53 +0000

Well dang. Wish I had known you were having all those issues. Me and a friend have set up our own servers and are running the Webdream on it. For those interested ( drum roll please, I gotta spam! ), we’re just charging $10 a month for light blogs. It’s Wordpress based with all the bells and whistles. I’m not gonna get rich from this thing, but I’d like to pay the bills. I basically was having the same problems as you guys with Typepad and decided to go it alone.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:44:50 +0000

I hear you on the web-provider woes.

I too, am looking for a more stable place, I’ve got a few insider deals (no pun intended) but I’m wondering if independent third party is the way to go or not.

Then again, being able to reach out and actually throttle your Web Administrator is a satisfying thought.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:47:35 +0000

Maybe Sean is secretly the owner of Lunar pages

By: A Senior Administration Official

A Senior Administration Official — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:18:12 +0000

Hey! I think that’s what LunarPages was doing! And I’ve got a 300 baud modem around here somewhere …

By: Sean Finnerty

Sean Finnerty — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:01:32 +0000

You should self-host. I’m hosting off of my own server - I daisy chained a couple of Macintosh Classics through an old Sansui receiver I bought in ‘77 at Pacific Stereo - and its been clear sailing ever since. The only problem is when I start picking up KMET through my scuzzi port.

By: Insider

Insider — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:21:23 +0000

LoserPages is the hosting equivalent of King/Drew hospital. Their tech support is just like the janitor who mopped around the lady who was dying on the floor in the ER. It’s hard to tell if it is callousness, incompetence, or both. Regardless if you get wheeled into King/Drew or LoserPages with a problem, you’re screwed beyond belief.

By: Scott Baradell

Scott Baradell — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:27:33 +0000

I was hosting Spin Thicket there….what a disaster. Left two months ago.