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Could Lunarpages in fact be the greatest phpBB web host out there?  I would say so.  For those of you who do not know, phpBB is one of the most widely used open source forum solutions to date.  It’s user friendly installation process and easy to use administration panel has made it one of the most popular forum scripts out there too. 

At Lunarpages, you have the option to install phpBB manually, via cPanel’s Fantastico script collection or if you have the LPCP control panel, through the WebApps Pool.  Every method listed, is very simple to do.  You can customize phpBB to fit any situation.  With the modifications and styles they provide, you will be able to setup a set of forums that are powerful enough for your needs and look just the way you want them to look.

• Learn More About the phpBB Features

The only big flaw I can find with a script like phpBB is it is very exploit prone.  Due to the fact that it is very popular, it gets hit with security issues more than your average forum script.

Need Help? To help you get started, here are a few tutorials to help:

• How to Install phpBB onto Your Own Hosting Account
• CHMOD Permissions for phpBB
• How to Create a Private Forum

You can find more help and tutorials about phpBB at the web hosting wiki too.  The folks at OpenSourceCMS also provide a demo of phpBB you can try out before you install it on your own web hosting account. 

November is Lunarpages Script Month!

Keep watching the Lunartics blog all throughout the month on November for even more third-party script suggestions, tutorials, tips and more.  You can also get tons of information and details about just a handful of the third-party scripts we support on the web hosting wiki.  We also have a special forum dedicated to third-party script discussions over at the Lunarforums.  Subscribe today to the Lunartics RSS feed for instant updates when we release a new script suggestion!

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Original post by Mitch

You can get started affordably with a five page web site professionally designed by Lunarpages.  Within the web design plans we offer, Website Package 1 will provide you with your web hosting, domain registration and web site design are all placed in the hands of Lunarpages.  It is the ideal hosting plan for small personal, business and informational web sites.

Here are the core features of the Website Package 1:

• 5 page static website (ie: home, about, services, contact, etc..)
• Custom Design**
• CSS Style Sheets
• Includes 5 stock photos from Fotolia.com to use in your design

It is also hosted on our Basic hosting plan, which provides to you:

• 1 Free Domain Registration (for a year)
• Unlimited Storage and Bandwidth
• $700 Worth of Free Bonuses
• Much Much More!

To see a demo site that was designed under these specifications, check out this link.  Let Lunarpages become not only your web host, but your web site partner, to make sure your introduction into the world of Online is greeted with open arms.

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Original post by Mitch

Dear Citizens of Lunarville,

Yeah, I said it – Lunarpages sucks when it comes to meeting my expectations. How dare they go above and beyond the call of duty time and time again when I expect far less from them.  Oh, you want an example?

What about the time they offered to renew my account, saving me $50 in the process, and making me keep more of my own money in my wallet.  My wallet is very small, and is not used to having that much extra cash.

You know what else they did to me?  They told me I could give them two e-mail addresses to contact me at if anything ever happened to my web site.  Oh, so I guess now they really want to make sure if something bad happens they want to be able to reach me?  The jokes on them, my web site hasn’t even been down once since I signed up.

The one that puts the proverbial cherry on top of that darn web hosting ice cream sundae is the fact that they keep giving me web hosting tutorials to learn from.  Week after week I keep finding thing on their web hosting wiki to learn from.  What do they think, I don’t enjoy spending hours trying to figure out my problems?  Not only are they stuffing my pockets with more money, they are saving me more time in my day.  I guess now I have plenty of time to figure out how to get that extra money into my wallet.

This isn’t the last you have heard from me either – I will be back with even more ridiculous ways Lunarpages keeps sticking it to me with their “friendly” and “quality” service.

Yours Truly,

The Perplexed Patron

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Original post by PerplexedPatron

“HP announced new consulting services to help enterprise customers consider incorporating the cloud as part of their broader IT strategy”, “PEER 1 launched its CloudXcelerator program… which lets its partners to develop, test and run their cloud applications on the company’s IT hosting infrastructure”, “The web designers’ guide to cloud hosting”, these are one try […]

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I would like to thank you to Keith Dunlan, the publisher of Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine for featuring my article “Time For Cloudware” in Ping!Zine’s Issue # 33. He is a great guy who is behind the longest running web hosting magazine in the United States. Download the PDF version of the new issue […]

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I would like to thank you to Keith Dunlan, the publisher of Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine for featuring my article “Time For Cloudware” in Ping!Zine’s Issue # 33. He is a great guy who is behind the longest running web hosting magazine in the United States. Download the PDF version of the new issue […]

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Cloud computing has become very trendy term, many interpretations which often conflict with each other appeared, and I’ve seen many people to get confused with the terminology. When it comes to putting “Cloud computing” into practice including the implementation of this style of computing into web hosting industry, then it comes really cloudy. I can […]

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By Mitch “A Little on the Cheap Side” Keeler

Looking for a way to cut costs in the bad economic times, how about making your own business cards, Online?  Not sure if they expect this to be used as a real service or not, FreePDFCards.com is an online tool that will help you make your own business card.  You can include your logo, your name, your title, and more.

You can fill in up to 10 lines in all, then when you are done – hit preview to see what it looks like and the big happy green download button if you want to save it to your computer. 

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