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Old 09-21-2009, 04:14 AM Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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I received an email from lunarpages saying that I have to pay $19.95 to renew my domain.

So lunarpages only offer one year limited free domain name? Since when?

I think 19.95 is WAY much too expensive. Any idea?
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Old 09-21-2009, 05:15 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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I have lunarpages for hosting. I expressly never signed up on lunarpages for their domains as I always keep hosting separate from domains. Switch to GoDaddy and have the DNS setup to use the lunarpages host. It'll save you.
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Old 09-21-2009, 05:21 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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So lunarpages only offer one year limited free domain name? Since when
Of course they do, it's a marketing ploy to get your business

you REALLY should read things PROPERLY

taken from one of the hosting plans "More Information" page
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Free Domain for the first year of your hosting plan.
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Old 09-21-2009, 07:20 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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Never, ever take up a "free" domain offer from a webhost, if they don't sting you financiaally you may find that the domain was registered in their name, not yours!

Get your domains cheap from godaddy and point the dns, its the easy way to always get the best hosting deal.
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Old 09-21-2009, 08:08 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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It is better to sign up web hosting plan that provides free domain name for life.
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Old 09-21-2009, 10:14 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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It is better to sign up web hosting plan that provides free domain name for life.
What is that anyway?
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Old 09-21-2009, 07:29 PM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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I received an email from lunarpages saying that I have to pay $19.95 to renew my domain.
Try to transfer it to a cheaper registrar. You should be able to find some that ask ~$10 per year.

Lunarpages' "Free Domain for the first year of your hosting plan." is quite atypical. Most of their direct competitors either don't offer a domain with the hosting, or do so for as long as you host with them.
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Old 09-21-2009, 10:36 PM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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Thanks for you guys.

Now I make it clear, they offer one year free domain name for customer after August 2008. And I regitered with them in November, so I have to pay for my domain.

Now I trasferred my domain to Godaddy, and it's much cheaper, and my question is:

Will this domain transfer affect my rankings? I am really concerned. I think they will update my domain details (I used different address when I registered with Godaddy since I moved)?

Thanks, guys.
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Old 09-22-2009, 12:13 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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I believe domain transfer will not affect the ranking. however you need to know that cheap hosting like lunarpage have marketing catch. They let you host for $10 per month but they higher the cost of domain name. They let you have unlimited bandwidth and space but they will limit on processor, memory and database usage.

I have experience with lunarpage. when my site visitors increase to 400 visitors per days, they will suspend you and ask you to upgrade to VPS or Dedicated hosting. This process take up to 3 weeks. Can you imagine, your website suspend for 3 weeks?
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Old 09-22-2009, 05:07 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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I assume if you need you should pay for it - just to save the domain name. After domain name renewal you will transfer it to another domain name registrar
The main aim for now - not lose the domain name
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Old 09-22-2009, 05:58 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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I believe domain transfer will not affect the ranking. however you need to know that cheap hosting like lunarpage have marketing catch. They let you host for $10 per month but they higher the cost of domain name. They let you have unlimited bandwidth and space but they will limit on processor, memory and database usage.

I have experience with lunarpage. when my site visitors increase to 400 visitors per days, they will suspend you and ask you to upgrade to VPS or Dedicated hosting. This process take up to 3 weeks. Can you imagine, your website suspend for 3 weeks?
Thank you for the hints.

Can you tell me what CMS you use? I could not imagine that you got suspended for merely 400 visitors, thanks.
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Old 09-22-2009, 11:30 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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Transfer to godaddy, lunarpages charge top dollar.
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Old 09-22-2009, 01:04 PM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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I could not imagine that you got suspended for merely 400 visitors
That seems indeed quite strange. Even if they were really active and viewed 20 pages on average, it would still be only 8K page views per day. Something seems off.
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Old 09-22-2009, 10:32 PM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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A similar thing happened to me. I used to host with Lunarpgaes. A few months ago I started promoting some of my blog posts a little more than usual, which brought in more traffic. Twice Lunarpages shut my site down for using too much server resources. I moved the site to a VPS I had and Lunarpages refuses to give me a refund for the remaining time on my hosting account.

Not the brightest move considering I end up choosing where many of my clients host their sites. So for about $65 Lunarpages just lost several thousand dollars over the life of my client's sites. Not to mention the recommendations they'll no longer be getting.

In fairness to Lunarpages similar things happen on a lot of shared hosting accounts. Shared hosting works fine until you start getting some traffic.
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Old 09-23-2009, 04:53 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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That seems indeed quite strange. Even if they were really active and viewed 20 pages on average, it would still be only 8K page views per day. Something seems off.

The web hosting provider tell that and that is truth.



BTW what is going with banners? They a become big one moment and do not allow to see any text
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Old 09-24-2009, 09:31 PM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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The banner issue is being worked out. It may take a few days so I hope you'll be patient. It is being worked on though.
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Old 09-25-2009, 08:27 AM Re: Lunarpages offer one year limited free domain?
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http://www.felxo.com/services/shared_webhosting.php dont make you pay for a domain after a year as long as you are with them they will all ways give you a free domain
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