Overview: Yahoo Web Hosting has a variety of plans to match your business needs, no matter what stage your business is in and no matter how much or how little web experience you have. They offer 24 hour toll-free phone support and a 30 day satisfaction guarantee. The have user-friendly tools for customizing designs and a new feature that helps with customer conversion.
Specials: Yahoo! Web Hosting currently has two special offers. The first special is for a 1 year term priced at $7.46/month for the first 3 months. The second special is for a 3 month term priced at $8.96/month for the first 3 months. You can also get your one-time setup fee of $25 waived.
Reliability: Yahoo Web Hosting has excellent uptime with top-notch servers and hardware. They are connected via redundant connections, this giving your site more redundancy with virtually no downtime. Their data center is secured and located in a state-of-the-art facility and they have constant monitoring 24 hours a day. As a protective measure, Yahoo is private regarding their security infrastructure and network locations for the purpose of preventing intrusion attempts and enhancing security.
Customer Support: Yahoo Web Hosting offers 24-hour toll-free phone support, as well as online ‘Getting Started’ guides, video tutorials, 24-hour email support, and a comprehensive help center
Control Panel: Yahoo Web Hosting features an excellent web-based control panel that gives users access to an online management interface, where they can utilize all the tools and helpful resources needed for building and maintaining a website. The control panel offers extensive features and functionality that integrate directly into Yahoo’s other applications and services.
What Sets Them Apart: A unique advantage when using Yahoo Web Hosting is that they have a substantial assortment of elaborate ecommerce features that can be used to compliment your website. You can use these comprehensive add-on features to take your business to the next level. They are easy to implement onto your site and enable you to market your business to the millions who surf Yahoo everyday.
Summary: Overall, Yahoo’s web hosting service is up to par with top industry web hosting companies. They offer simple web hosting solutions that slightly cater towards people who are new to web hosting with less web experience rather than to the advanced web hosting crowd. They have good technical and customer support, great reliability, and a brand name people know and trust.
Yahoo provides decent Business Hosting, just make sure you compare plans before choosing a provider for Small Business Hosting, make sure you get lots of bandwidth and space.
If you think of availing the Yahoo Small Business services, then think again. Better you search what people say on blogs and forum as it will save you from headache with their ‘unjustified’ business practice.
I myself has got into trouble few months ago. I am using Yahoo Small Business for 5 years hosting our family business. It a big leap for our company going online as we get a lot of customers abroad. Recently, we get another domain to increase traffic and host it in Yahoo. After a year of hosting on my second site, yahoo increase the rate by 350% without informing me. This is unacceptable for us so we contact yahoo to the best we can but they never replied back.
We talk to our bank to protect us from unreasonable charges made by Yahoo to only realized that they terminate the service to all our domains. We cant log in to our emails and we cant transfer our domain. They do this without informing us. We’ve tried to contact them and they finally reply back by just saying they can do anything about it.
Three months from now, we havent get the domain back and we completely loose our email. My company started with a new site and people start coming in again.
So, to all who plan to use Yahoo Small Business… better think again. They have poor customer support and if you read their TOS, you will realize you cant do anything. You are at their mercy.