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Yahoo Small Business Hosting
Being one of the industry leaders in the advertising and search industry, Yahoo Small Business Hosting provides the same kind of leading services in its web hosting business.
Having the backing of one of the industry giants, Yahoo Small Business Hosting is definitely a provider to be looked at.
Hosting Plans
Yahoo provides 1 hosting plan which ranges from $12.95 to $9.95 per month depending on the term of the contract. Customers can choose to be on a monthly plan or sign up for 3 months or 1 year in advance. The plans also offer a 30 day money back guarantee if you wish to cancel. You will be refunded your money less the setup fees incurred by the company.
For customers that are not sure or cannot develop their own website Yahoo Small Business Hosting provides convenient site building tools which require no technological knowledge.
Users first select the design they want, then can pick which pages they want to add, Yahoo already provides a number of standard ones like 'About Us', 'Testimonials' etc. Once customers have decided on all the pages they would like to feature on their website the content and pictures can be added/changed right from the tool. A number of other pages can also be added with ease such as photo galleries, audio and video files and customer feedback and lead generation forms.
Customers do not have to worry about running out of capacity as the plan features unlimited bandwidth and disk storage. There is also a comprehensive suite of reporting tools available to analyze your website traffic and performance.
Unlike most of the other web hosting companies there is no mention of the sites capabilities to run programming languages such as PHP and Perl, or host databases like MySQL. This could be a severely limiting factor to users who want to add custom functionality.
Yahoo Small Business Hosting also has solutions for businesses looking to take their products and services online. The Merchant Starter plan costs $39.95 per month and like the basic web hosting plans comes with a tool to quickly and easily build a website. The plan also has a $50 setup fee. Customers are provided with all the tools they would need to set up their online store such as billing systems, marketing tools such as opening emails and payment process systems.
Yahoo Small Business Hosting claims to be the home of over 500 of the internet top retailers including customers such as:
Lance Armstrong
Oakland Raiders
Ben & Jerry's
Other Services
As you would expect with one of the leading search engines Yahoo Small Business Hosting provides a number of tools to help you get your website off the ground. Tools to send out an opening email and marketing emails are provided along with a generous number of advertising dollars to spend with companies like Yahoo, Google, Ask and MSN.
You can also be better known to the customers in your locality by listing on Yahoo's local search. An affiliate program is also provided for those customers that would like to earn a little extra money each month.
Customer Support and Reviews
In terms of support option Yahoo Small Business Hosting does lag behind other providers. There is an online help center which features a number of articles to browse through but tools such as online chat and ticket system are sorely missed on the site.
While they do list a number of clients, no testimonials or reviews are featured. User reviews featured on external websites are mixed in ratings.
Company Information
With the backing and experience of the Yahoo banner supporting the hosting plans, customers can be rest assured that they are in the hand of a company that knows the internet. However the company has not really won many notable awards for its hosting services.
The information in this review is not to be used as the sole decision making tool. Personal evaluation of the company is of the utmost importance.
Signing up with Yahoo would not make anyone think twice. However with a limited feature set and lack of awards specifically for web hosting, potential customers may want to evaluate a number of other more economical options first. Also the pricing for the plans seem a little higher than the industry average.
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