What Happened to Lunarpages? Status and Where to Move in 2026

Lunarpages customers are now with HostPapa, which bought the brand. If your old account still hosts a site, judge the current service by its renewal price, backups and support. You do not need to move simply because the name changed, but keep an independent backup before deciding.

Is Lunarpages Still in Business?

No, not under its own name. The Lunarpages brand was retired after the HostPapa sale. Today, typing lunarpages.com into a browser lands you on the HostPapa homepage. The page does not mention Lunarpages at all, which can confuse former customers trying to log in or pay a bill.

Where lunarpages.com takes you today: the HostPapa homepage.

The current homepage still leads to HostPapa. Our earlier review also found redirects on the old inner pages and customer login; those checks do not prove that an individual account can authenticate.

A Short History of Lunarpages

Lunarpages was a US host that sold cheap cPanel shared hosting, reseller plans, cloud VPS and dedicated servers, mostly to small businesses.

An archived snapshot of the Lunarpages homepage from August 3, 2019, shortly before the sale (Wayback Machine).

HostPapa announced the Lunarpages acquisition in September 2019. Archived pages then showed HostPapa offers under the old brand before the site became a direct redirect in 2020.

Those archive captures explain the name change, not the status of a particular present account. Current customers need to check their own HostPapa service and renewal notice.

What Happened to Lunarpages Customer Accounts

An archived snapshot of lunarpages.com from September 29, 2020, during the transition. The page had separate buttons for new customers and existing Lunarpages customers (Wayback Machine).

HostPapa’s transition material said websites, email and SSL would continue, with customers moving to its infrastructure and support. It did not establish a public migration date or new plan mapping for every individual account.

A later renewal-help page includes legacy plan names that resemble Lunarpages offers, but its label alone does not prove how every old plan was mapped. Use the actual dashboard and renewal notice for your account, especially before assuming an old price or storage allowance still applies.

How to log in to an old Lunarpages account

Use HostPapa’s official sign-in and recovery routes for an old Lunarpages account. If the email address or plan mapping is unclear, contact support before changing billing or cancelling a service.

What Lunarpages Offered (Historical)

Before the sale, Lunarpages sold cPanel shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated hosting. The later pages under its old name sold HostPapa plans with a domain, SSL and other bundle features.

The old Personal, Business and Business Pro price lists are historical. They are not new Lunarpages offers and should not be used to budget a current HostPapa purchase.

HostPapa Today, in Brief

If you have a former Lunarpages account, this is the host you are on now. We have not reviewed HostPapa hands-on, so the figures below come from HostPapa’s own pricing and renewal pages, as of October 2026.

HostPapa Essentials starts at $2.95 monthly on a three-year term, renewing at $8.99 on the same term or $12.99 monthly, for one site and 25 GB NVMe. Growth starts at $5.95, renewing at $13.99 on three years or $17.99 monthly, for five sites and 100 GB.

Premium starts at $6.95, renewing at $19.99 or $24.99, for unlimited sites and 200 GB. Elite starts at $9.95, renewing at $27.99 or $30.99, for unlimited sites and unmetered NVMe. The introductory rate requires the long commitment.

HostPapa says all plans come with cPanel, a free SSL certificate, Imunify360 malware scanning, staging, free website migration and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Backup offers have storage caps and limited free periods. On Essentials, the current page gives a year with a 24- or 36-month hosting term, but only three months with a 1- or 12-month term. Check the paid backup price and capacity after that period. The money-back guarantee applies to the first 30 days after signup, so a long-standing former Lunarpages account will not qualify for a refund on its next renewal.

Moving a WordPress site from HostPapa

Ask the new host about an assisted migration and keep a backup outside the hosting account. If the domain changes too, confirm that the chosen migration tool rewrites the site’s stored URLs; a successful same-address restore does not establish that.

Keep a downloaded backup outside the hosting account, test the new site before switching DNS and move mailboxes separately. A WordPress backup does not contain hosted email. Cancel the old account only after the site and email work at the new host. Our migration guide covers the steps, and our UpdraftPlus review explains its recovery limits.

Where to Move: 3 Alternatives

Pick based on what you need. Our full reviews have the details and current prices. Browse all our hosting reviews for more options.

• Hostinger: a low year-one price for small WordPress sites, an easy dashboard and LiteSpeed servers. The headline price needs a long prepay, and it renews much higher.
• FastComet: cPanel shared hosting, so the control panel will feel familiar if you are used to Lunarpages or HostPapa. Note that it also changed owners, joining World Host Group in 2025.
• Cloudways: managed cloud hosting priced by the month and charged by the hour, with no long prepay. A good fit for business sites that have outgrown shared hosting. Our Cloudways review explains how it works and what it costs, and our Cloudways vs SiteGround comparison compares it with a shared host.

Staying with HostPapa is also a fair choice if your site runs well and the renewal price suits you. The work involved depends on the site and email setup.