Yahoo Hosting Review

I have hosted me business through yahoo for the past 4 years. Previously I used a much cheaper domain service. Yahoo has impeccable "up" time. Not once in four years has my site been down. I read the reviews on this site and I notice a common theme, everyone suggest "another" service. These are web gurus that want you to find them instead of using the very user friendly Yahoo interface. Trust me, Yahoo is the way to go. They are NEVER down. My previously web hosting service got bought out several times by other companies. Eventually I didn't know who my money was going to for my domain. Yahoo isn't going anywhere and offer the piece of mind that your site is in good hands. Also, their service knew how to fix any problem I had, regardless of time of day. Very good customer service. Most importantly, Yahoo has given me all the tools I need to dominate my market niche. From excellent site design references, to outstanding store front management, my company has just grown

I did not even feel the need to rate the other categories. What was a moderately useful interface for managing one's GeoCities site is now infinitely worse with the latest revision. Plus the paucity of templates and the lack of ease to change themes/css files makes for a rather difficult experience

My client at the moment uses Yahoo for hosting so I got a good look into how Yahoo hosting operates since I'm the one in charge of setting up the database, creating users, etc. As a web designer who has worked with many clients on many different hosts, I can confidently say that Yahoo is THE worst one of all. Here's why: The servers randomly shut down, sometimes longer than 48 hours which is ridiculous if you rely on your website for income. Also, the technicians aren't very knowledgeable. Every time I call, either they don't know the answer to my specific question or just have no clue what I'm talking about so they have to put me on hold for five minutes while they go ask someone higher up. Also, if you're planning on running your site on the WordPress platform, be prepared to go through a lot of unnecessary loops related to permalinks. I do have to give them kudos for one thing, though. They finally updated their version of mysql to the latest. They were several years behind all of the other hosts but they finally got their stuff together. Just do yourself a favor and go to DreamHost, HostGator, or Media Temple.

I've been using Yahoo web hosting for several years, and I'm finally done with it. The site building tool is complicated at best, with a pitifully poor selection of templates. But the thing I found most frustrating was the inability to customize the size of text boxes. Really?? Is this truly a difficult feature to provide?? Oh, and if you want to talk to someone, be prepared for a confusing, delay- heavy conversation with someone in the Philippines who doesn't know the first thing about providing technical assistance. And you get all this for 3-4 times what the other companies are charging! Very poor, I'll never go back.

Stayed with Yahoo hosting for more than 8 years and finally had it this year. Sites go down without notice, MySQL is a continuing nightmare, tech support is clueless and tells you that it will take 24 hours for the engineering team to bring your live commercial site up. And for this really "outstanding service" they charge you 4 times as much. If you are with them. Quit. If you are evaluating, do yourself a favor and don't.

I deliver about 2 to 3 new Wordpress websites every week to clients, so I know my way around Wordpress installation and configuration very well. I usually send all new client to Hostgator to get a fresh hosting account, but I agreed to use the existing Yahoo Small Business account for one recent client. What a mistake! After giving up most of my weekend and the Superbowl trying to get the darn thing working, the site is up but without permalinks and unable to run an industry-standard backup script. If you didn't think hosting mattered and it was a commodity that is the same everywhere. Think again. Do not host a Wordpress site at Yahoo. Educate your clients about why they need to switch. This site will be moving again as soon as I can figure out how to disconnect the client's email accounts from yahoo....that's another disaster. They won't give out the MX records if you want to host elsewhere and keep email deliver in place.

After over 6 months of overcharges without resolution I tried once more to resolve the issue. I was not inclined to make a change after 7 years with the same company. I was put on hold for over an hour, after speaking with David Benson, Operations Manager, I decided to take my business elsewhere. It wasn't the hosting service itself. It came down to customer service... the indifference about my continuing as a customer, the arrogance and the 'take it or leave it' attitude exhibited by Mr Benson... and that they kept me on hold for over an hour, during which time I researched the pricing and programs of their competitors. I found was that GoDaddy had a much better plan at much better pricing... a much better value... and their customer service people simply had a much more 'interested in my business' attitude. To be blunt, if Mr Benson and the rest of his customer service people had resolved the billing issue without wasting hours of my life by keeping me on hold, I'd still be a customer of Yahoo Web Hosting... and I'd still be paying them almost 3 times what I'm paying GoDaddy for their web hosting service. To add insult to injury, after going through the process required to transfer my domain away from Yahoo, Yahoo held up the move and charged me for their service while they delayed the transfer for "5 to 9 business" days. According to Jonathan Morgan, another Operations Manager at Yahoo's Web Hosting Service the transfer process "just takes that long", "there's nothing anyone can do to speed it up" and "noone at the exectutive level, including their Vice President is going to do anything except refer the issue back to [the operations managers]". My recommendation, use any service but Yahoo for Webhosting unless you like poor customer service.

I started with a paid Geocities plan for simple web hosting and stuck with Yahoo when they switched that to one of their Small Business plans when they shut down Geocities, primarily due to inertia and the hassle of moving the three domains I purchased thru them. For my limited needs (I'm not running a business), they are a little pricey but I've had no complaints so far. MySQL 5.0 would be great so I could keep WordPress up-to-date but at least they've finally updated PHP to a more current version. I don't use any of their web site tools, I'm very old school with web page/site creation - give me a text editor and ftp client and I'm happy, so their lack of support for the fancier tools like FrontPage isn't an issue. Sure, other services offer more features for similar prices but I wouldn't use those fancy features anyway. I can't say I would recommend them, even though I've had no real problems myself, but that is primarily due to concern about the continued existence of Yahoo.

I've been with Yahoo for over 3 years, and although they provide a decent hosting experience to fit your basic needs, the lack of an .htaccess file greatly limits the expansive and creative capabilities. Uptime/Reliability - Perfect, no problems. Disk Space - Unlimited Support - Slow, unprofessional responses. Price - Very expensive. Features - Basic hosting features, WordPress auto-installer. Recommended For - Intermediate consumers with low expectations. Problems/Issues - Outdated control panels, outdated sitebuilding software, bugs. Comments - I do not recommend for anyone, new to the hosting industry, or hosting professionals, to purchase hosting from Yahoo. The only reason I am still a customer, is because of a transaction bug that caused for my subscription to be free.

I have had a "Geo Cities" website for almost 10 years now, even during the switch to Yahoo. I've never had to many problems with them...but I'm not the greatest web site creator either. But the last few weeks I cannot get anything to update and save. It says it is saved...but the changes NEVER take affect when I visit my own website...Very aggravating!!