Should I Go, Or Should I Stay?

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 30th, 2009 | 1 Comments

My blog here is currently hosted on Lunarpages servers and my hosting account expires now at the beginning of next month. In order to renew my hosting account there it would cost me $107.40 (€76.53) which is a ridiculas amount to have to pay for one year’s hosting, in my opinion. I decided to have a quick look on the Lunarpages site to see what their current rate is for customers now, and it is so much better than what they are offering me!

Now you can get a full years hosting with them for only $59.40 (€42.33), that is almost half the price they are trying to get off me! So I think that it would be a good idea to leave Lunarpages, I have got another hosting account with Dreamhost which only cost me $9.24 (€6.96) for a full year, now obviously that is not their usual yearly cost, but I got that when they were having a deal.

My point is here why should I pay for another years hosting when I could just simply export all my databases from Lunarpages and then Import them all into Dreamhost then I could just transfer my Domains Nameservers over to Dreamhost. That way I could have a full years hosting with Dreamhost for virtually nothing, since I have already bought it.

I think that it would not hurt Lunarpages to look after their current customers before looking for new ones. They could offer their current customers a discount on their next year’s hosting that would at least match their current offer they are offering to new customers!

I still have not fully made my mind up yet if I should switch, but it is likely that I will.  I have a few more days to decide before my hosting expires, then I will send off the e-mail cancelling my account if I choose to go ahead. Sure my websites might go down for a few hours, but it will be worth it to save me spending another $107.40! :o

Now I Have Two Servers

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 29th, 2009 | 0 Comments

This week I decided I would take up the great offer that dreamhost are offering, if you sign up with them using the coupon code '777' then you will receive a full years hosting with unlimited bandwidth and disk space for only €6.96 ($9.24). That is a really good offer and one that I could not pass by.

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So as it stands now I have two servers with two different hosting providers, this one I am currently using is Lunarpages and then the new one I am going to be switching too (once my current hosting period ends with lunarpages) which is the DreamHost one.

I figured, why should I pay for a renewal of my lunarpages account when I can get a full years subscription with another hosting company with a saving of over 90%. If I like the service I get from DreamHost then I will consider staying with them for another year when it comes to the time for renewal again. Who know by that time there could be another offer out and I might switch, why pay more for a service you can get somewhere else for a fraction of the price and that is potentially better than the current one you are using.

The funny thing is that dreamhost had initially set this offer as a one day thing, but everyday they seem to extend it to another day! They must be making a killing with this offer. Great way to get new customers, it certainly worked with me!

Success

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments

After about 2 days of my website being down i have finally got it working now. it was really annoying me i hadn't a clue what had happened. I had recently bought new hosting from a different provider, i was using GoDaddy but i am now using Lunarpages.

When i signed up for the hosting on Lunarpages apparently they did not set my account up properly, this caused me to not be able to transfer my files onto my server using FTP or by using there Control Panel, everytime i tried logging in it said 'Login Failed' saying that  my Username and Password was wrong! So i decided i would contact the tech support and they quickly fixed my problem, they told me that my account was setup wrong so they ended up changing me a different server, i didn't care which server i was on once it worked.

So it is all working now, so i am happy :). I have definitely noticed the difference on this new hosting account, i find that my website loads much faster and it does not jump when scrolling down the page, i dunno what was going on with the GoDaddy server but i would definitely not recommend using it, i would recommend using the Lunarpages hosting.

I also got a great deal on my hosting, i signed up for a years hosting and it only cost me €28.88 ($45.40) which is unbelievably cheap! It was supposed to cost me $95.40 but since i managed to get a hold of a $50 discount i was happy, really cheap hosting, i payed about $35 for my 3 month hosting with GoDaddy and managed to get 12 months of hosting with Lunarpages for only $45.40, definitely cant beat that.