RSS
13 Dec 2006

Blogging on LunarPages: Episode I

Author: ceefour | Filed under: Beginner, News, Opinions, Praises, Rails, Reviews, Ruby, Tips, Web 2.0

So just now I got a Basic Plan account at LunarPages. My site that’s hosted by LunarPages is LunaRails.com. It’s time to do something with it… icon smile Blogging on LunarPages: Episode I

First impressions: Everything is smooth, running well, professional, quick, easy. My account got set up in just several hours. Newly-created subdomain works immediately, very nice. (I created blog.lunarails.com just to try WordPress.)

My first steps were creating a WordPress blog at blog.lunarails.com. I used cPanel to create a subdomain, which immediately works. And then used Fantastico to create the WordPress. Very simple and easy. Done under 5 minutes. Although upon first test, I noticed something “weird,” it’s the blog subtitle originally shown: “Not just Lunartics… It\”. The actual intended blog subtitle was “Not just Lunartics… It’s Lunarrific!”

Now, coming from the PHP world, I know exactly why this problem arises, that dreaded magic_quotes_gpc issue and stuff, that makes PHP programmers’ life very difficult. I think this maybe the problem of Fantastico. Note that this issue may be able to cause security problems. Anyways, fixing this in WordPress admin was easy & quick. So it’s not a big deal, I guess.

My next plan is to play around with secure site capabilities as I got a dedicated IP in my LunarPages account. I’ve requested an SSL certificate from StartCom and still awaiting their approval. I’m not sure what I’ll make of it but I’ll just do whatever comes to mind.

Some admin-page screenshots:

321050079 dfc5eea101 Blogging on LunarPages: Episode I

321050078 27a229d700 Blogging on LunarPages: Episode I

So far so good. Got 35 GB of space, 800 GB of bandwidth. Many things, like databases, subdomains, etc. are virtually unlimited. Very good value.

UPDATE: Although it doesn’t provide shell access & Subversion, here’s some general technical specs:

Operating system Linux
Service Status Click to View
Kernel version 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.7
Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl
Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
Installed Perl Modules Click to View
PHP version 5.2.0
MySQL version 5.0.27-standard
cPanel Build 10.9.0-RELEASE 79
Theme cPanel X v2.6.0
Documentation Click to View
cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 at 12:28 am and is filed under Beginner, News, Opinions, Praises, Rails, Reviews, Ruby, Tips, Web 2.0. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  • http://www.lunarpages.com Tiara Rea

    :D Yay! Glad to hear things are going well with Lunarpages! You might want to email support@lunarpages.com about the MySQL 5 and PHP 5 issues. PHP 5.0.x is available on some servers, and all you have to do is request a move to one of them via email. I’m almost positive this is possible for MySQL 5 too. ;)

    Either way, yay! Happy hosting!

  • doug

    I created a blog on lunarpages. I wanted to make it secure and came across the issues of having dedicated ip and ssl certificate. I tried the haristv patched secure login plugin with no luck. Would be curious to know if I got dedicated IP and ssl cert for what like 60 or 70 bucks would the plugin work? Or is there another way to achieve ssl security on my blog.

  • http://hendy.gauldong.net/ Hendy Irawan

    Dear Doug,

    If you have a dedicated IP and proper SSL certificate, all of your communication with your site/blog will be encrypted and you’d be secure alright. Without any plugins. This is the case even if you aren’t running a blog and just serving static files.

    The reason is because SSL works at a lower layer than HTTP. So all you do is prepend “https:” instead of “http:” to your URL and you’re done.

    There are lots of things to “security,” but I take it that you want to login to your blog but with your password encrypted so that no middle man would be able to gain access to your site.

    You may want to get in touch with Lunarpages support if you need more information about their particular setup.