Hi Snooty,

Let me to try to reply on your questions to help make a decision.

As for the addition software offered, if you don't know what an item is and what it does, more than likely you don't need it. I would recommend to choose phpMyAdmin, a web tool to manage MySQL databases. The same is included in cPanel.

If you like to spend some time reviewing who visited your site and which pages are most pupular, you may also choose Analog or Awstats. The both are web analytics reporting tool.


Plesk has a file manger build-in. It is a bit better that cPanel one per my opinion.


Please Power Pack is a bundle of the SpamAssassin, Application Pack, Helpdesk, Tomcat, ColdFusion, and PostgreSQL addons that integrate the above programs into Plesk.


Managed services addon for VPS includes:

• Up to date notifications of exploits on popular third party software
  Monitoring of your server through Lunarpages' internal monitoring to

I would highly recommend to choose it if your site availability is critical.


We can upload and import your databases, but all other configurations and scripts upload is your responsibility. We can assist with the move, but there would be additional charges involved. The price will be $75/hour.


VPS is very good for those who needs custom software installed or as a transitional step for future upgrade to a dedicated server. If your usage stats are acceptable for the basic or business plans, you may consider switching to one of them. They recently got a huge disk space increase for the accounts using the space for web site purposes. Email support@lunarpages.com to get your current resource utilization and advise if it would be allowed on the shared account.

If you have any further questions, please advise.

I'll second perestrelka's statement that if you don't know what something is, you don't need it. However, if you're curious about these items, on the chance they might be useful to you...

• Cold Fusion  -  An application server and development system.
• Analog  - Web visitor statistics.
• Autoresponder  - Automatic email response: "Thank you for writing to ____. Some drone will get back to you when they wake up..."
• Awstats  - Web visitor statistics.
• phpAdsNew  - Not sure, sounds like some kind of ad presentation system (on rotation).
• phpPGadmin (PostGreSQL reqd.)  - PostGreSQL database administration GUI.
• phpMyAdmin  - MySQL database administration GUI.
• PostGreSQL  - An SQL database similar to MySQL, MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, etc.
• Zend Optimizer  - Something to speed up PHP operations.
• Java  - A programming language that can be used to send mini-applications ("applets") to a visitor's browser, or can be used with JSP (Java Server Pages) to script pages on the server (like PHP or Perl can do).
• Tomcat (Java reqd.)  - Another application server/development system, involving Java and (I think) PHP. From Apache.

Yes, after the move you will get a working site and no installs or re-installs will be needed.


Plesk does not have have addon domain feature. Instead each separate site should be created as  a separate domain. Your addon domains will not be transfered automatically and their content should be transfered separately.


2% of CPU usage on shared server is acceptable for VPS. However, please also ensure that the memory usage is below 5% for your account in shared environment. More than 5% of memory usage may cause stability issues and slowness for the site.


Plesk does not has SquirrelMail and users only Horde for Webmail.  You will need to move your emails manually after email account creation by moving them through two IMAP accounts configured in email client on your computer.

Please advise if you have any additional questions.

I don't think moving to a VPS is a really good idea if you are getting that kinda traffic. VPS don't really have the resources for high ammounts of DB access. I would suggest going to a dedicated II.

Hope this helps.

Thank you all for the quick replies. As for the 'high amounts of DB access'; My site does not run on a database. It only has a (fairly small) phpbb forum. I don't really know where this high resource suddenly comes from, but I doubt that it will increase much in the future.
Anyway, got some more questions:

- I sometimes read here about 'rebooting the server'. What is that all about? Does that have to be done occasionally? And if another site on that server is rebooting, will my site be offline then?

- If there are upgrades for a specific piece of software, like Plesk, will you do that or is that my job? I'm not that technical but I don't want to risk having a security leak.

- What about Cpanel? In the VPS FAQ it has multiple topics about it but I think I read somewhere it's not an option?

- Is the PHPmyadmin about the same as in Cpanel? I need to change some things in there soon (because of adding a spambot mod for my forum).