Yahoo Small Business Webhosting

Yahoo started their webhosting program just a few years ago and have succeeded to be one of the internet's largest small business webhosting companies. The simplicity of their web hosting packages and their uptime makes yahoo hosting a premier choice for new web hosting clients. They provide all the necessary tools such as PHP, Perl, Mysql, etc that makes their web hosting up to par with tier one hosting providers. In addition, they have one of the internet’s easiest to use website creation tool.

Products & Services:
Build your website fast and easily even if you are a beginner with Yahoo's site building tools. Yahoo's easy-to-use site building application, "Yahoo SiteBuilder", helps you to easily create a web site that looks like it was designed by a professional — with or without HTML code and features more than 380 web site templates that you can customize using simple drag-and-drop tools.

Another nice Site building tool is the new "Site Creation Wizard". With it you can build a complete site fast. You can easily create tables to display information, build custom web site navigation buttons, and use free images and dynamic content modules to enhance your site. Plus you can now create an even more compelling web site with audio and video files directly embedded in your pages. And since you download SiteBuilder to your computer, you can work on your web site even when you're offline which is offered with all packages.

You can place a customized search engine on your site so visitors can easily search for information on your site. You can customize the search box as well as the results page. Yahoo! Web Hosting offers interactive features like guestbook, counters, and stock quotes, which are simple to add to your web site. You can also easily add Yahoo! Maps, news headlines, an electronic message center or community forum to your site and much more.

Reliability:
Yahoo is powered using the same infrastructure as their search engine so you can be assured that your website will stay up and running at all times. Furthermore, Yahoo is connected via redundant connections so if one of their internet connections goes down, the other will quickly replace it making your site difficult to go down at all. In other words, it gives your site more redundancy.

Yahoo web hosting provides excellent customer support. Yahoo! Small Business devotes significant resources to maintaining highly reliable facilities that store your web site, store or email data. 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.

Yahoo Small Business comes with 3 Web Hosting plans... Web Hosting Starter, Web Hosting Standard, and Web Hosting Professional of which the most popular is the Web Hosting Starter which provides easy design site building tools and much more. If you need more... then the Standard package offers double the disc space and data transfer of the Starter package and the Professional package offers double the Standard package.

Our Conclusion:
At one time our personal experience with Yahoo Web Hosting had been mixed. But they have now worked on their product making it easy to understand. Their site is designed more for beginners and intermediate users, for people without much HTML and web design experience, but they also provide tools for the more experienced by supporting programs like Frontpage and Dreamweaver. It's a great, reliable option for hosting your website with many features to help you get your online business up and running from start to finish.

What we think? - Recommended!