Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting.

August 8, 2006

Users Reviews
- 1 Positive User Ratings
- 4 Negative User Ratings

Features: 2.2
Support: 2.0
Value: 1.8
Overall Rating: 2.0
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Web Hosting Provider: Yahoo! Small Business Hosting

Company Info: There is very little we can ad to what you probably alreay know… It all began in February 1994 as student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communiacte with each other, find information, purchase things and of course host their websites. Do they have the best though? When it comes to relaibility, there is no other hosting company to compare to. When it comes to prize, oh well some times we need to pay for a good service.

Serving Area: Worldwide

Basic Plan: Starter

Price: $8.96/first 3 month then $11.94/month

Basic Plan Includes: 5GB Storage Space | 200 GB Data Transfer | Free Domain Name | Scripting and Database: PHP, Perl, MySQL | Support for FrontPage and Dreamweaver

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9 Responses to “Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting.”

John said:

March 6th, 2007 at 10:22 am

I am very happy with Yahoo! Small Business web hosting. While not one of the least expensive provider, it is probably of of the most reliable ones. For the last six month of hosting our website with them we had 0 downtime. If you are have an online store downtime can cost you in revenue. Thumb up for Yahoo! Hosting!!!
Consumer Awareness said:

March 18th, 2007 at 6:52 am

Yahoo has configured its CGI so there is no cgi=bin… the CGI scripts sit in WWW document space. Also, directory listing is enabled and cannot be switched off. This is not a serious hosting configuration.
Jen said:

June 14th, 2007 at 11:18 am

Yahoo is the worst hosting company. Their tech support reps are extremely NOT knowledgeable. And a lot of features are working only in the first 2 weeks of registration and without notification, suddenly it stopped working. Called the tech support 30 times (seriously) within 2 weeks, and all they can do is transfer me back and forth. One time I ended up in Yahoo! Personals (hmmm, isn’t that the dating site??? how does that have anything to do with Yahoo Hosting?!). Then, I was having problem with their SSL server. So first reply from an email they sent is that ‘we don’t support advance scripting’. Helloo, I know that, but everything was working fine for 2 weeks, how can it just stopped working when I didn’t even change anything in my files. Then second reply, Yahoo said ‘yes you are correct, it is the problem with the ssl server’ and that’s it, no solution given. Third reply, they just gave me an email template that has nothing to do whatsoever with my issue.

I can’t believe a company such as Yahoo can have a lot of stupid tech support reps!
Wendy said:

July 16th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

Yahoo’s customer service is even worse than their tech support. I was told they were the most reliable hosting company available. After 4 hours of dealing with Tech support people who could barely speak english, it was finally determined that my website which had been designed for Unix would not be compatible with their windows servers without an entire redesign. I canceled the service the day I signed up, but yahoo billed me anyway. After 5 months, I noticed the erroneous charges and spent 40 minutes on the phone with billing. The guy was nice and said it would be credited. Unfortunately, Yahoo will only credit 2 months as it took me 5 months to notice it and their policy is to only credit a max of 2 months, plus I am told that I had active service at least that is what I think the non-english speaking supervisor said. Now I have to go through my credit card company to get the charges removed. Between their out-sourcing and lack of responsibility, I can only hope that their business practices catch up with them and I never hear the name Yahoo again.
otto said:

June 20th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Yahoo Webhosting is pathetic. Save your money and your grey hairs. I am frankly shocked. I signed up a week ago, (ottoschick.org), tried their setup software over 50 times, can’t get it to work, called their Webhosting Tech Support over 40 times (Tel. 866-800-8092) and each time is says the hold time is 30 minutes or more, even at 2am. I’ve waited some times up to 55 minutes and gave up. Try it yourself. The one rep I reached told me it was my computers fault, or maybe my Virus software. Right. So they’ve charged me, I don’t have a website, and i can’t reach anyone to solve it. Atrocious ! I also will be going to my credit card company to seek a refund. Truly pathetic and so very unexpected. otto
Terry said:

July 31st, 2008 at 12:05 pm

I have been online waiting for tech support for 30 minutes!!!!!
:O(
Ned Carey said:

November 25th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

My partners chose Yahoo hosting. I was a little skeptical. It turns out I was right. Yahoo has been a disapointment.

Yahoo seems aimed at the most basic users at the expense of flexiblility of more advanced users. On the surface this may seem advantageous for new users but there is some basic functionality which is missing. For example. They claim to automatically install wordpress for blogging. The problem is they install an older version. The do a very poor job of keeping up to date with wordpress versions. This is a real security issue and afffects newbies and experienced bloggers alike.

There seems to be a problem with their wordpress installs, Links to Pages do not work. (links to posts work fine). You cannot install a blog on your home page it is is a directory http://www.domain.com/blog. There is no way to get it into asimply http://www.domian.com without the blog sub directory.

There are other technical issue like being unable to access the htacesss file. Many other review I read seem to concur that their support is pathetic.

I also wrote a review of Blue host on this site. I can say that blue host is substatially better in both features and online documentation. I am relatively new and not particularly technical but I find Yahoo hard to figure out. Blue host by comparison I have been able to figure out pretty much everything I need to know.

One positive I often hear about Yahoo is your site is never down. However I have never had a problem with Blue Host that I have perceived. I plan on moving my site at yahoo over to bluehost.

Ned Carey
ecommerce cart said:

April 14th, 2009 at 1:51 am

Yahoo! Small Business is not as bad as you guys make it out to be. Well I guess it is only a little better than many free services yet they charge a lot but they’re still not that bad. I wouldn’t recommend it, but if someone already has an account I wouldn’t advice switching to another service.
Yahoo Small Business said:

June 8th, 2009 at 8:38 pm

I just saw the $34.95 posting to my bank account. No one to call, cuz none of the Yahoo sites have a number for Yahoo Small business, nor to they have a help screen of any significance. What I have gleaned from sites such as this is DO NOT USE YAHOO! SMALL BUSINESS unless you have hours and $34.95 to burn. btw it starts out at 9.95….funny how that happens!

I don’t even remember what my domain name was or if I even had one. The only service I used was the upgraded email for $19.95 a year. You can bet your bippies, I’m canceling that too!

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