Yahoo Hosting Hosting Review

		6.3
		4.1 (2)

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Plan Details

Plan Name:	12 Months
Price:	$7.46
Disk Space:	Unlimited
Data Transfer:	Unlimited
Domains Hosted:	1
Hosting Services:	Shared Hosting

About the Yahoo! Hosting

Like Google, Yahoo! has been one of the most popular search engines for a very long time. It has been providing web hosting services since 2002. Their web hosting plans are aimed for first time web hosting users. With Yahoo!, you can rest assure their servers and hardware are of high quality and reliability since they are powered by the same infrastructure as their search engine counterpart located in a state-of-the-art facility.

Yahoo! Hosting Plans

Yahoo! Web Hosting provides 3 different that only different in prices. Price starts as high as $12.95 a month for a "1 month" term, $11.95 per month for the "3 months" term to a 1 year term with the cheapest monthly price of $9.95. Though the plans are relatively more expensive, all 3 plans have waived the $25 setup fee. Their plans also include site builder tools, unlimited storage space, bandwidth, email storage as well as 1,000 business email addresses. Click here for all the features.

There is also a 30-day satisfaction guarantee policy which allows you to cancel your plan within 30 days without penalty. You will not be refunded for the domain you registered but that also means you don't lose your domain name until the end of the 1-year registration.

Joomla Hosting Features

Since Yahoo! Web Hosting supports PHP and mySQL, Joomla can be installed.

Customer Support

Yahoo! provides 24/7 customer support through the "Contact us" link. They also provides an extensive Yahoo! Small Business Help page that covers anything from billing inquiries, registering a domain to promoting your web site or store. Their also provide round the clock toll-free phone support if you have a plan with them.

Visit: http://www.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ for more details.

Editor review

Limited Features for Hosting Joomla

Overall rating:		6.3
Price:		5.0
Support:		7.0
Features:		5.0
Uptime:		8.0

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Reviewed by Steven Johnson
March 15, 2009

Last updated: June 22, 2009

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Every one knows Yahoo! and they provide good but expensive hosting for general websites. Yahoo limits access to many of the features you need to run a great joomla site.

When we set up a client with Yahoo! Hosting we were successful but it was a challenge at every turn. You have to set up the mysql yourself.

The big downside for us was no access to your .htaccess file. For those of you not familiar with this it means you can not use all the features of the Search Engine Friendly URL components with really limits you in the terms of SEO.

I would really think twice before setting another Joomla site up on Yahoo hosting. If you are a novice or advanced with php/mysql systems I would look for another hosting company to run your Joomla website.

Pros and Cons

Pros	Well established company They answer the phone
Cons	limited access to your site have to set up mysql manually can not use mod rewrite

User reviews

Average user rating from: 2 user(s)

Overall rating:		4.1
Price:		5.0 (2)
Support:		1.0 (2)
Features:		4.5 (2)
Uptime:		6.0 (2)

Go to them if you're a learner about web hosting industry

Overall rating:		5.5
Price:		7.0
Support:		1.0
Features:		7.0
Uptime:		7.0

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Reviewed by Rajat Agarwal
February 17, 2010

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Prior to moving my Joomla website on Rochen, I was with Yahoo for one full year. With Yahoo there's that "do-yourself" linux-like feeling where you get to learn a great deal. You have to install joomla (and other such CMS and blogs)manually via filezilla or other FTP clients because they don't have fantastico autoinstaller and to inbuilt ftp services. So you will learn how exactly FTP runs, how to create databases in PhpMyAdmin, how to handle domains and all that stuff because they have ZERO customer support. So that's actually a plus and a minus together.

With no customer support, I learned what exactly were databases and how they functioned. What were SQL queries and I learned to optimize my tables in order to make my joomla site run faster.

Also they give no access to php.ini and htaccess.txt which are very useful in the later stages of your joomla website.

However, they have a very good interfaced "file manager" (more like the file manager of cPanel but more user friendly) that can be useful for newbies. It lets you do all the things that a cPanel file manager lets you do but without hassles.

Another thing worth mentioning is their seriously AWESOME business mail. I really miss it since i've moved to rochen. It had a superb interface (far far better than "Horde", "Squirrel Mail" and "Round Cube" which cPanel offers) with a really useful functionality called "catch all". After activating catch all any mail say "xyz@yourdomain.com" or "abc@yourdomain.com" would not be missed and would land up in your mailbox. This is one functionality that I miss since I've moved out of Yahoo. You could create filters in your mailbox, search your mails, put in HTML, use your mail with other web based clients like Gmail.

Then they give you "unlimited" diskspace and bandwidth. "Unlimited" creeps some people out but actually it's really better than rochen providing me with just 500 MB. I've not tried to go actually test their unlimited claim but I had wordpress blog, phpbb forum, joomla and some other scripts running on the same hosting and without any tensions. If it were rochen, it would have rung it's alarm bells or suspended my website long ago.

There's no limit on mass mailing. Send 10000 mails in a minute if you want, they don't really care. I've tried it. I sent out a promotional email from it to 50,000 people and they all reached.

Overall it was okay but for the fact there's no customer support which really really sucks. I mailed them on some issues and am yet to receive a reply. They just don't reply, do what you will. Tried calling them but was stuck with their auto customer care mode and never got to speak to a representative.

But, if you're a beginner in web hosting and just need to try things out, they'd be the best. They'd actually make you learn stuff!

Pros and Cons

Pros	Fairly easy to use file manager Business Web mail Access to domains control panel No limits on bandwidth No limits on diskspace No limits on mass mailing
Cons	No access to php.ini No access to htaccess.txt No customer support No fantastico autoinstaller

Installing Joomla on Yahoo Web Hosting

Overall rating:		2.8
Price:		3.0
Support:		1.0
Features:		2.0
Uptime:		5.0

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Reviewed by Yofie Setiawan
May 04, 2010

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful

Just like said on this article, its quite true a lot. It's really iritating when you have client that use a web hosting which is not using same feature for managing files. This time i get almost deadly stuck with Yahoo Web Hosting Service that is supported by Yahoo Small Business. For me, i already get used to cpanel. And i think most professional web hosting would use that. It's easy to use, manage, and installing third party service for developing your site. For me cpanel help me a lot in helping me develop Joomla sites. But it's not t he way that Yahoo Web Hosting did on it's back end. You don't even see any fantastico there, dream of it! But Thank God, even it's not have many features near to cpanel, it still supporting database with mysql and php. And the good thing is you can still see phpmyadmin here. Which is help you a lot in case of database on Joomla.

You might want to read more on my blog at : http://www.yopdesign.com/blog/68-joomla/277-installing-joomla-on-yahoo-web-hosting.html

Hopefully would help someone that is had a same problem with me...