Yahoo! Web Hosting Review

May 12, 2010 • Category: Reviews

Company

Yahoo! is a large corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo is mainly known for its search engine as well as email services along with web hosting. As of 2010, the corporation laid claim to the largest share of online advertising in the world.

Year Founded: 1994
Incorporated: March 1, 1995
Founder: Jerry Yang and David Filo - Electrical Engineering Graduates, Stanford
CEO: Carol Bartz
Office Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Sister Companies: del.ico.us, Flickr, Fire Eagle, FoxyTunes, Upcoming, Wretch

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Features

Yahoo web hosting offers unlimited email storage, disk space and data transfer. Yahoo offers everything a user could need from insightful web tools, simple management and performance reports to 24 hour customer service support.

Free domain name
24-hour toll-free customer support
Unlimited Disk space
Unlimited Data transfer
Email addresses
1,000 Easy-to-use site design tools
Support for third-party design tools
Photo, audio, and video galleries
Advanced scripting and database tools
User-friendly control panel
Exclusive online marketing discounts Included
$100 Yahoo Credit
$50 Google Adwords Credit

Customer Support

Yahoo offers several varieties of customer support.? For starters, online guides for getting started, video tutorials and a comprehensive help center are available.? If further assistance is needed, Yahoo offers 24-hour toll-free phone support.

Customer Satisfaction & Guarantees

Yahoo does offer a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee for new signups or for those who upgrade their existing services from other web hosting products. A complete refund of the fee is guaranteed if a user is not satisfied.

However, domain names that are registered through Yahoo may be assessed a $7.00 yearly registration fee. Unfortunately this fee is not refundable and cannot be cancelled.? To make up for this however; the domain name can be transferred to another provider after 60 days.

Guarantees

30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Uptime 99.9%

Site Builder

Online site builder provided by Yahoo provides a checklist for building the site.? Simple entry for text and photos is also included.

Performance, Uptime & Equipment

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

Technical Specs

PHP 4.3.11
Perl 5.8.7 and support for the standard library plus 12 additional modules
MySQL 4.1, with unlimited databases
Support for most FTP software
Support for Flash, Shockwave, videos, and more
Blogging options include b2evolution, WordPress and Movable Type
Web site enhancements, like guestbooks, PayPal payment, Yahoo! Maps, and site searchOnly include this if the information is available to you.

Conclusion

Deciding on a web hosting service can seem daunting and overwhelming.? Yahoo Web Hosting offer the advantage of a highly reputable brand you can trust. Beyond this, Yahoo offers all the tools required for successful hosting of personal and small business web sites. Check out their offer today!

Check out Yahoo! Web Hosting now ?

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3 comments

Comment from: Matt [Visitor]

Your review is written excellent. However, when it comes to web hosting I do not like the idea of having sites even hosted with Yahoo!

To any readers I must suggest that you find a smaller company that can provide you with either live support as well as 24/7 ticket support.

I also do not think that Yahoo has much of a control panel. I like to be able to use Softaculous, Installatron, etc.. and Yahoo can not provide this!

Maybe they will in the future and maybe they have a control panel better the cPanel or DirectAdmin. I don't know. I just would like to suggest your readers to read through the 100 reviews you have already posted.

06/27/10 @ 02:41

Comment from: Martin G [Visitor]

I have to agree with Matt. Most smaller web hosting companies will give you a better service as it will be a more intimate relationship than the larger hosting providers. Generally the smaller companies want to keep hold of their customers as they rely on the word of mouth to help promote their service.