Yahoo Review

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Overview

- 5 GB Disk Space

- 200 GB Bandwidth

- Host Unlimited Domains

- Host Unlimited Sub-Domains

- 200 POP3 E-mail

- Free Site Builder

- Free Domain

$11.95/month - More Info

About Yahoo Hosting

You certainly cannot blame the web site owner and publisher who is wary of placing his business in the hands of Supercalifragilistic Hosting based on the promise of a low price. Your website can generate many thousands of dollars per month and to risk its data and uptime record to save five bucks a month can be myopic in the vast majority of cases. That is why Yahoo Hosting can certainly be considered a fair deal. What you are receiving for your $11.95 per month is nothing to jump up and down about, and is easily beaten on a price/feature ratio by the majority of hosting services out there. What you are paying for is the Yahoo name, trust, credibility and reliability. If that is the most important factor in your choice, then by all means, you should go with Yahoo Hosting.

Plans and Features

Yahoo Hosting's entry level plan is not bad per se, it's just that it would be considered way overpriced if the name at the top of the page wasn't Yahoo. You get a reasonable 5 GB disk space, 200 GB bandwidth, 200 E-mail accounts, the capability to host unlimited domains and sub-domains, and a free domain registration. If you look around the web enough, you will likely find a similar deal for about half the money, and you won't be charged a rather usurious $25 setup fee. But as has to be mentioned again and again until it sinks in, the Yahoo name may well be worth the extra expenditure.

Yahoo Hosting Reliability

It's Yahoo, so what can be expected? Nothing but the best. Even though by reading their website you wouldn't know if they are hosted by a server farm directly on a backbone or on a 486-DX on a farm in Peoria, that really doesn't matter. Their site is unbelieveably simple and even features Flash presentations that start out "What is Web Hosting?" so you know that they are primarily marketing to housewives who wish to host quilting sites and not to experienced, technically-savvy web site owners and publishers on the cutting edge. Data on server configurations and redundant connections would just alienate Yahoo's intended targeted market, so you certainly can't blame them.

Conclusion

Yahoo Hosting has the unmitigated gall to offer upgraded packages, including one that offers a "huge" 20 GB of disk space and 500 GB of bandwidth for a jaw-dropping $39.95 per month, and still poke you for the $25 setup fee. The really crazy part about this is that their target market will fork over that amount of cash without even thinking twice about it, simply because it's Yahoo, they know Yahoo, and they trust Yahoo. Therefore when rating Yahoo Hosting it is important to take that critical trust factor into consideration. For the neophyte wary of unknown hosts who might turn out to be nightmares, Yahoo Hosting scores an A. For the experienced web site owner and publisher who knows their way around, it scores an F. Therefore, the only option is to average it out to a C.

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