Apparently Yahoo! Small Business hosting is trying to catch up with the rest of the web hosting industry. Today, email was send out with the list of exiting features:

• Unlimited disk space, so you can forget about running out of room for your web site.
• Unlimited bandwidth (data transfer) to support even the most complex multimedia site.
• Unlimited email storage, so you never have to worry about deleting messages to free up room for more.
• Free Yahoo! Site Solution design tool, which helps you create great web sites quickly and painlessly — even if it’s your first time.

The Site builder is one of the most noticeable improvement, besides increase in hosting space and bandwidth. However if you are and advanced webmaster and would like to have a little more control over your website, Yahoo! Small Business Hosting still can do a little more:

.htaccess (Hypertext Access)
The name .htaccess refers to the main configuration file for Apache, a popular open-source HTTP server. The .htaccess file can be used to create custom error pages and web page redirects, set up password protection, enable SSI, and more. Yahoo! does not currently allow you to upload .htaccess files to your account. For other customization options, we recommend the Custom Error Pages and password-protection features available in your Web Hosting Control Panel. – Yahoo! Small Business Help

Still the unlimited hosting space and bandwidth are huge improvements. If you have used or are currently using Yahoo! Small Business Hosting feel free to share with the rest of us what is your impression of this provider.

Mark from 45n5 shares with his readers why it is important to manage your own DNS. This of course is not a solution for every webmaster. If one website is all you have, there is no other way but trust your web hosting provider to manage DNS for your domain name. However if you are launching a major product that stability of other websites may depend on, you should definitely look into managing DNS by yourself. Here is Mark’s entertaining yet extremely educational video:

Is 3 hours downtime and a sleepless night acceptable when you pay $200 for a dedicated web hosting? I do not think so. Especially if the trust of the people who might use your service is on the line. I sure hope LiquidWeb gives Mark a good explanation. I will be following the story and will post soon if I hear anything new. For now enjoy the video below and think twice if you should trust LiquidWeb: