Review about Yahoo Web Hosting - completed on 2007-02-17 - by Jason Chaing
General Impression Yahoo! Small Business is a one-stop success center where you can enhance every aspect of your online operations.
Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and attracts the largest audience worldwide - over 237 million unique users per month. You can benefit from Yahoo!'s extensive reach, leveraging the Yahoo! Network to access potential customers and increase awareness of your business brand.
Over the past eight years, Yahoo! has become the Internet's leading global business services company, offering a comprehensive network of essential services for businesses of all sizes. When you choose Yahoo!, you're joining forces with a company that stands for Internet best-practices and expertise.
Scalability
Yahoo! Web Hosting can support your growing business now and in the future.
* They host more than 30 million web sites and blogs.
* They manage more than 50 terabytes of data.
Ease of Use
You can build your own web site! Their easy-to-use tools and services guide you through the process, tep-by-step.
* PC Magazine says they offer "exceptional ease of use"
* Their tools make complex tasks easy for everyone.
* 24-hour support and Getting Started guides quickly answer your questions.
Price & Cost Effectiveness As a Yahoo! Web Hosting customer, you'll get many extra benefits:
* Free domain name
* No extra charge for our web site building tool
* Huge storage and data transfer capacity
* Virtually unlimited databases
* Multiple email addresses with plenty of storage
* Advanced scripting and database tools
Reliability They provide a reliable platform for online business services so you can avoid costly investments in hardware, software, and IT staffing. Their systems are monitored around the clock and we devote significant resources to maintaining highly reliable facilities. These measures allow them to support your growing business and to help you deliver a superior customer experience.
You get the same trusted back-end technology that supports the Yahoo! network.
* Consistent 99.9% uptime helps ensure that customers can access your site.
* They frequently back up your web pages - so you don't lose changes.
* Redundant links to Internet backbones help your site load faster.
* Multiple data centers help keep your web site up and running.
They are serious about security and provide many ways to help safeguard your data
* Extensive physical and electronic security measures protect our data centers.
* Shared SSL certificates help protect your customers' data.
* Passwords can be used to control access to your site.
* Advanced anti-spam and virus software helps protect your email.
Data Center (toured) Yahoo! Small Business devotes significant resources to maintaining highly reliable facilities that store your web site, store or email data.
Always Available
These facilities are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, so someone is always monitoring the hardware that your email, web site, or store needs to run. They provide the support for your growing online business needs and help prevent your site or email from going down.
Security Measures
They have implemented a number of safeguards and policies to protect against unauthorized users and environmental hazards that could compromise your data.
Control Panel Yahoo!'s intuitive, powerful tools, extensive help resources, and skilled customer care associates make it easy to take your business online -- no matter what level of experience you have. It truly has never been easier get your business online.
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Contact Information for Yahoo Web Hosting
Owner:
Yahoo!
Site Title
Yahoo! Web Hosting
Site Description
Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
"I have been looking at for a different hosting service to host my website, but after looking at other testimonials for the other websites I believe I will leave it where it is longer.
The good thing about it is my website has never been down. My emails , never lost.
The thing I wish where different, being able to use PHP 5 and being able to edit the config file.
I have never had a SQL problem and have the basic bus. plan.
At one time I had a custom php shopping cart and on the fly php picture resizing. No problems.
They are hard to get a hold of but never had too.
I have hosted here for about 2 years, and now have unlimited space and bandwidth and email space.
Again, after reading the other testimonials , especially about the emails, I will probably stay. Losing emails would just about end our business.
However, you can only have one domain name per plan."
Randy Hobart<randy@hobartsprinting.com> / www.hobartsprinting.com
Gail Matano ( gmat13(at)optonline(dot)net ) at: 2008-03-24 Time Hosted: 2 to 3 years General Rating note:
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When I changed my internet provider, and my email changed, my website stopped working. Yahoo doesn't have the right to keep charging me for a website that they stopped. I have spent over 5 hours on the phone, it was sent to "engineering", and was supposed to be fixed within 3 to 5 business days. I'm still waiting 2 weeks later, with no response! I've sent countless emails, only to receive generic automated responses. I am going to change my webhosting service, and stop Yahoo payment on my credit card. It will be a lot easier than to try to get someone to actually try to help me at Yahoo!
Raj ( ) at: 2008-03-10 Time Hosted: under 1 month. General Rating note:
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Yahoo's has worst customer service. I couldn't speak to customer service agent even after waiting on phone for more than an hour.
luis flores ( jp_rda at yahoo(dot)com ) at: 2008-02-27 Time Hosted: 3 to 6 months General Rating note:
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We use site for administrative tools (prices, inventory, invoices, etc) Suddenly site sent a "forbidden" Message, no acces to MYSQL, imposible to reach them by phone, Mail answers are a joke, automated answers, they dont read your problems!!!: "your problem is temporary and will be fixed soon, ..." same responswe always. Really disappointed, but if site is not critical to you it may be ok.
Jean Pickering ( jpic333 at hotmail(dot)com ) at: 2007-05-22 Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years General Rating note:
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Your review does not match my experience. Here are the facts. I sent emails to which Yahoo's support team never responded. Their URL redirection for subdomains does not work. They only allow one user ID for MySQL databases which creates a security risk for sites that use a database. It took 5 days for their technical staff to solve a php mail problem. During that time, they did not respond to my inquiries and the pages that used php mail on my client's web site did not work. Their technical staff is not 24 by 7. Their price is higher than other web hosting plans that offer more services.
Perhaps on the surface, they look good, but once you start actually using their services, they seem to lack the technical expertise and support staff to host professional web sites.
1websitedesign ( submissions(at)1websitedesign dot net ) at: 2007-04-27 Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months General Rating note:
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London based website design company offers website design, shopping cart development, web development, SEO services, server administration services, web hosting.
keeper of stores ( storekeeper at gmail(dot)com ) at: 2006-01-09 Time Hosted: under 1 month. General Rating note:
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The reason why I rated this the lowest possible, is because of their Terms of services located at
"9.2 Content Ownership
Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content You place on Your Service. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on Your Service, You grant Yahoo and its successors and assigns, the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license under Your copyrights and other intellectual property rights, if any, in all material and content displayed in Your website to use, distribute, display, reproduce, and create derivative works from such material in any and all media and display in any manner and on any Yahoo property the results of search queries and comparisons conducted on Yahoo, including, without limitation, searches conducted on Yahoo Shopping and the Service. You also grant Yahoo the right to maintain such content on Yahoo's servers during the term of these Terms and to authorize the downloading and printing of such material, or any portion thereof, by end-users for their personal use . "
It generally means that they have all the rights to do whatever they please with your website content, even selling it.
Robbing my content, and even binding me legally to it through their ToS is what I call the worst kind of host ever. I suggest to never host with them, unless you have nothing interesting to place on your website. Perhaps then it is somewhat safe to use them as host.
After I found that www.ixwebhosting.com is really the best around in terms of service and quality ToS. My only problem has been that I couldn't afford them, but I am going to host a few websites of friends at subdomains at a very low cost, so that I can afford the hosting package :)
If anyone finds a better quality host that offers more than ixwebhosting, and is very reliable, then do mail me, I am always interested ;)
aenima666 ( aenima666 at videotron(dot)ca ) at: 2005-09-01 Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months General Rating note:
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How secure is their database.......I've been billed for something I didn't buy from them. I has previously bought 2 domains from Yahoo and then a couple of months later I'm getting billed for a hosting plan when I actually have my own dedicated server. This is ridiculous.
At least, Yahoo were pretty fast to correct the situation and did reimbursed the amount billed to my credit card. The same thing was different with www.1and1.com tho, they basically told me to fuck off. So I'm transfering the domains to my own domain registration company http://domains.binair-ehosting.net. I haven't seen any SSL certificates for both of the companies, Yahoo and 1&1 that is, something which even my starting company can afford.
I think they would have to get their stuff reviewed a bit in order to offer more secured transactions and secured information in databases.
