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Often we overlook the obvious questions posted to a blog.  One of the most obvious questions would be how do you subscribe an stay updated when new blog articles are posted to the Lunartics blog?  Today I’ll let you know what all your options are, so that you can use the one that suits your needs the best.

We are all about posting web hosting and web development related tips, tutorials and more here on blog.lunarpages.com, so if you want to make sure you don’t miss any of them, stay tuned.

Really Simple Syndication

An RSS feed is a document that follows the Really Simple Syndication specification, and is used to syndicate a web site’s content to other places.  The RSS feed is the file path you need to make this all work.  For the Lunarpages Web Hosting Blog here, our RSS feed is located at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/lunartics.

You can take our RSS feed, and plug it into any number of RSS feed readers out there.  This means you could display our blog posts in your Google Reader account, the iGoogle front page, My Yahoo, Pageflakes, Bloglines, Newsgator and more.  Just click one of these buttons to subscribe via the corresponding service, automatically.

You can also copy and paste the feed address into any other RSS feed reader you might not see mentioned above.

Get Updates by E-mail

If you want a more traditional way of keeping track of this blog, you could subscribe via e-mail too.  This way you would get a daily e-mail digest of when the Lunartics blog is updated. 

Subscribe to Lunarpages Hosting Lunartics Blog by Email

When you click the link, you will be prompted to enter your e-mail address into the form that appears, and verify that you wish to subscribe. Once you do, you will get a daily e-mail with everything that has been posted on the Lunarpages Web Hosting Blog.

It is easy to subscribe to make sure you get all of our free web hosting tips, cool coupons, incredible offers and so much more.

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Original post by Mitch

I am finding myself in more of a holiday mood, the closer and closer we get to Christmas.  So what happens, when you mix the Christmas spirit with the likes of the web hosting world?

Here you have, the Lunarpages rendition of a holiday classic, The Twelve Days of Hosting Christmas.  Enjoy!

On the first day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
A website package in three different flavors!

On the second day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the third day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Six resellers a-selling,
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the seventh day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Seven dedicated servers a-hosting,
Six resellers a-selling,
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Eight domain registrations a-redirecting,
Seven dedicated servers a-hosting,
Six resellers a-selling,
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the ninth day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Nine e-mail plans dancing, sending,
Eight domain registrations a-redirecting,
Seven dedicated servers a-hosting,
Six resellers a-selling,
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Ten Business plans e-commercing,
Nine e-mail plans sending,
Eight domain registrations a-redirecting,
Seven dedicated servers a-hosting,
Six resellers a-selling,
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Eleven Basic plans, basically,
Ten Business plans e-commercing,
Nine e-mail plans sending,
Eight domain registrations a-redirecting,
Seven dedicated servers a-hosting,
Six resellers a-selling,
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my web host sent to me
Twelve Quicksites rocking,
Eleven Basic plans, basically,
Ten Business plans e-commercing,
Nine e-mail plans sending,
Eight domain registrations a-redirecting,
Seven dedicated servers a-hosting,
Six resellers a-selling,
Five XEN virtual private servers,
Four Windows hosting plans,
Three awesome affiliate offers,
Two Starter plans,
And a website package in three different flavors!

From everybody at Lunarpages, I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!  Be sure to stop by our holiday thread over on the Lunarforums, or drop in  comment to spread your own seasons greetings to everybody!

© Lunarpages Web Hosting - Also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Original post by Mitch

Did you notice we added a new translation button to the Lunarpages web hosting wiki yesterday?  Now our wonderful international audience can gain access to all the wonderful tips, tutorials and information the wiki has to offer.

How can you add this same functionality to your own web site?  The magic starts on the Google Translate page.  Make sure you navigate to the “Tools” tab, and select the language your web page is in. 

Next, select the languages you want to offer translation to.  Since Lunarpages has happy hosting customer all around the world, I selected the “All Languages” option. Now, all you have to do is copy and paste the code from the Google Translate web site onto your own web site. 

Now anybody will be able to quickly translate your pages to their own native tongue, opening up a whole new international audience to your web site. For another alternative, in button form – also check out, ConveyThis.com.

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Best of the Bit.ly Tools
• Weekend Project – Create a Google-Friendly Sitemap
• Preview, Review and Download Free Fonts!

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Original post by Mitch

Lunarpages is already the ideal solution when it comes to Virtual Private Server hosting, both of the Linux and Windows flavors, so what else makes VPS web hosting with Lunarpages so great?  The Intense VPS Hosting Management.

What features are included with the Managed Intense service?

• Free setup of APF Firewall and Root Kit Check on the server
• Up to date notifications of exploits on popular third party software
• Upgrades of php, apache and administration panels for security per user authorization (we will send notice and you can decide if you want the upgrade to be performed)
• One free third party script installation per billing year
• Free installation of upgraded control panel
• 24×7×365 Phone and Help Desk support
• Dedicated Support staff
• Access to Lunarpages customer account page:
  • Ticket Manager
  • Reboots
  • Bandwidth
  • Knowledgebase
  • Billing Options

As you can see, you get tons of great coverage, and more bang for your buck.  Now for both the Linux and Windows VPS hosting services, the price of the Managed Intense service is usually $24.99 per month, however we will (for a limited time only) allow you to try it out free for 30 days! 

If you are searching for that perfect middle ground when it comes between shared and dedicated hosting services, don’t forget about the great benefits of getting your Windows VPS or Linux VPS hosting plan with Lunarpages!

Related Tips and Tricks:

• A Dedicated Design Resource for Web Designers
• Stopping Spam – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 3 of 5)
• New VPS Hosting Beta Program

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Original post by Mitch

Looking around for easy to use badges and graphics to use with Twitter, I ran across a really neat one.  TwitStamp allows you to create a little custom Twitter badge that you can customize to your liking.  You can make one just like this:

Here is just one of the many options you can pick from.  They have tiny, small, and medium options to choose from, each with 4 or 6 skins to choose from.  How about this one?

Pretty cool, isn’t it?  Go create your own at TwitStamp.com and be sure you are following your favorite web host @lunarpages.

© Lunarpages Web Hosting - Also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Original post by Mitch

The world’s oldest and probably the most appreciated virtualization solution provider VMware said to It media that its infrastructure has been awarded as “Best Cloud Platform” during the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Show Awards, a gathering organized by SYS-CON.

All delegates of the conference have been offered to vote to choose a favorite cloud computing […]

Original post by D.Avramov