It's one thing if a site is actually causing problems. But I just read their own FAQ, and they basically state that they monitor CPU usage and kick sites that get too high over some X period of time. They don't mention whether or not this causes other sites any problems, they have some form of hard limit which is enforced.

This is a bloody stupid policy, and under no circumstances can I recommend any host which is so boneheaded as to manage their customers in this manner.

So yes, LunarPages is a non-contender.

It's one thing if a site is actually causing problems. But I just read their own FAQ, and they basically state that they monitor CPU usage and kick sites that get too high over some X period of time. They don't mention whether or not this causes other sites any problems, they have some form of hard limit which is enforced.

This is a bloody stupid policy, and under no circumstances can I recommend any host which is so boneheaded as to manage their customers in this manner.

So yes, LunarPages is a non-contender.

Also you need to watch out for their yearly plans. First, they will make it difficult to cancel. And if you quit early they will try to charge you for three ‘free’ months at full price, even though their ads say the monthly price is actually less if you pay yearly and you can quit early with a refund of unused months– it just never mentions that they will consider it the first 9 months full price and the last 3 months free. I’ve been very disappointed with them since some catostrauphic failures in the middle of last year, and have moved all my domains over to Databasemart.com, where I’m now getting *very* good tech support service, and excellent features and resources including database support, windows asp.net hosting and a full user management console for my domains. Also Databasemart is very speedy.

-Sam

In the other hand, HostGator and Hostican scan faster. They did it like half an hour or so. But their anti fraudulent system are just too cool for me (which HostGator claim it makes them better than Dreamhost). I’m a suspected scam to them which i can’t understand why. I pay via paypal (aren’t all paypal user’s verified?), they have my IP, and they will host my site on their server which they can shut down anytime they want if it’s a scam site. So, I refused to be verified because, in my view, only retarded will verify to get a web host service.

This way i must thanking LunarPages.

When I got notification from Lunar pages that I was using too much CPU time, I deleted everything that wasn’t being used including the blog data. I also phoned the help desk asking how to uninstall WordPress since there was no option available for that. The tech said he didn’t know.

I’ve since had 3 professional web designers and 1 guy majoring in computer science evaluate my site and they’ve found nothing out of the ordinary other than I’ve got a lot of content and a lot of pageviews.

Yes I probably do need to move to a dedicated host soon because the site is growing but there is no way I’m using more CPU resources than I did before unless it’s simply traffic based and not /usr/bin/php as Lunar host has told me.

Moral of the story: When purchasing cpanel hosting, pay month-to-month.

Kind regards,
Martin