Lunarpages Hosting Plans

As you guys know, Lunarpages has updated its hosting plans features and pricing recently. For the ease of review, here are the summary of Lunarpages hosting plans.

Do note that all pricing below are based on 24 months subscription where monthly hosting cost is at its cheapest and setup fees are all free. Extra setup charges may apply if you’re ordering for less than 12 months.

That’s right, as a courtesy from Lunarpages strategic partner – Flash-Template-Design.com (FTD), you’ll get a free Flash template (worth up to $60) for free when you subscribe your 12/24 months hosting plan at Lunarpages.

How to take advantage of this Lunarpages offer?

Step 1: Order Lunarpages

Simply click here to order your hosting service at Lunarpages. Make sure you subscribe to 12 or 24 months plan and use promo code “FTD” at the order page.

Step 2: Wait for 30 days after account activation

After your account is activated with Lunarpages for 30 days, email FTD (select the “info” category) and quote the domain name on your new Lunarpages account.

Step 3: Completion

FTD will email a download link for the template of your choice and it’s totally free.

My favorite Flash template at FTD

I had take time to browse around FTD while writing this article. There’re tons of great Flash templates around and one of my favorite is definitely this design (shown below). You can preview the Flash templates by clicking here.

It’s official! Lunarpages is no more offering 1,500/15,000 GB storage/bandwidth. Instead, they are now offering unlimited disk storage, file transfer bandwidth, and domain names in their basic hosting package.

Is this for real?

Welcome to the world of unlimited-domain-hosting in one hosting account.

With Lunarpages’s “Fall Special Promotions” basic hosting plan, you’re going to get unlimited file storage capacity along with unlimited bandwidth for just $4.95/mo.

Along in the revised promotion package is the latest “Bonus Programs” where new customers get series of software plus web promotion package worth $775 in cash!

Now how good is that!

From what I see, the promotion is definitely good news for those who are running multiple websites. Bluehost and Hostmonster were previously the only two offerring unlimited disk storage and bandwidth and their monthly price is $6.95/mo but now we can get the same package at 20%+ ($4.95/mo) cheaper cost with Lunarpages’s latest promotion.

What’s in the “$775 worth Bonus Programs”?

The Bonus Programs consist series of useful web application as well as web marketing credits.

Get full registered versions of Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows & Linux, WinSettings and Photo TurboBackup by FileStream, Logo Creator Entertainment and Sports Editions, 60 days free at RatePoint, 15 DNS level Gafana spam, virus protection, and email management accounts, $100 LinkWorth free advertising credits and $20 in Bidvertiser clicks, DeepTrawl website error checker, plus 3 months of VisitorVille web stats and 3 months of SiteScout’s Infection Alert Service!

Is this offer a time limited promotion?

I can’t be sure as I haven’t get to any Lunarpages personel yet. But the promotion title reads “Special Fall Promotion” so I suspect the promo won’t last long till winter.

Hurry before it’s too late, get Lunarpages now!

Here’s an update post following up on my previous post about Lunarpages WordPress Themes Design Competition.

Every week starting August 4, Lunarpages is posting their top 5 favorite WP themes for voting. From the amount of votes, I am guessing the competition is not heated yet.

Also, I’m seeing some contestants having multiple designs listed in the top favorites (Contestant named “n252″ for example)…

Now what does this means?

This means the competition is still open for you talented designers out there! With little competition around, you stand a much higher chance winning the $5,000 cash equivalent prizes by submitting your cool WP themes designs.

Past Winners

Here are the compiled list of winners for each rounds at Lunarpages blog.

• Results for round 1
• Results for round 2
• Results for round 3
• Results for round 4
• Results for round 5

Remember to check out for latest results, as well as vote for your favourite WP themes at Lunarpages Blog!

Competition prizes

All contestants are entitled in the chase of $5,000 equivalent of cash and hosting prizes. As stated in the competition time table, winners will be announced by late October.

A quick view on the prizes? Here’s it.

• First Place $1,000 + 5 Years Hosting
• Second Place $300 + 3 Years Hosting
• Third Place $100 + 1 Year Hosting

On top of these three, there will be special bonus prizes given based on Lunarpages CEO and staff’s picks.

• Staff Choice - The Theme with the most staff votes wins 1 Year Hosting
• CEO Choice – The Theme that impresses our CEO most wins 1 Year Hosting

Feels like joining?

To participate, submit your personal particulars as well as your designs here.

No kidding, win up to $1,000 plus 5 years free hosting at Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3!

Lunarpages Wordpress Theme Design Contest!

Launched from August 4, 2008 to October 22, 2008, we are now at round 5 voting for the contest and you can find the top 5 at this blogpost. In case you are wondering how’s the winners are decided and the contest timeline, here’s the quick view.

Competition time line

The competition basically starts in early August where the voting on top 5 finalists for round 1 started. The result is announced one week later as the round 2 voting started. Following in such sequences, here’s the exact time table for competition announcement and voting period.

• August 4-10, 2008 – voting on Top 5 Finalists for Round 1
• August 11-17, 2008 – Round 1 Winner announced & voting on Round 2
• August 18-24, 2008 – Round 2 Winner announced & voting on Round 3
• August 25-31, 2008 – Round 3 Winner announced & voting on Round 4
• September 1-7, 2008 – Round 4 Winner announced & voting on Round 5
• September 8-14, 2008 – Round 5 Winner announced & voting on Round 6
• September 15-21, 2008 – Round 6 Winner announced & voting on Round 7
• September 22-28, 2008 – Round 7 Winner announced & voting on Round 8
• September 29-October 5, 2008 – Round 8 Winner announced & voting on Round 9
• October 5-12, 2008 – Round 9 Winner announced & voting on Round 10
• October 13, 2008 – Top 15 Finalists Announced (10 from the community + 5 from LP)
• October 13-19, 2008 – Community voting on Top 15 Finalists
• October 20, 2008 – Community voting closed & LP Staff voting commences
• October 22, 2008 – Winners Announced!

References: Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Competition Updates.

Contestant’s Entries

Here goes some of the top contestant’s entrees:

What are the prizes?

Winners will be announced by late October. The competition grand prizes consist of:

• First Place $1,000 + 5 Years Hosting
• Second Place $300 + 3 Years Hosting
• Third Place $100 + 1 Year Hosting

Also, there will be special prizes given based on Lunarpages CEO and staff’s choices.

• Staff Choice - The Theme with the most staff votes wins 1 Year Hosting
• CEO Choice – The Theme that impresses our CEO most wins 1 Year Hosting

How can I participate?

Getting hook and feels like testing your design skills? You bet! Now to participate, here’re the rules and regulation as well as the submission form!