Yahoo! Web Hosting Review

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Bottom Line The ideal choice for someone starting out and who may not know all the ins and outs of web hosting, plus 30 Day Guarantee!

Yahoo has become hugely popular as a service provider of web hosting. Their combination of reliability, brand name and ease of use has made them a top choice for both the serious business user and as well as the hobby web site owner. Their new hosting division has been established since 2002. With Yahoo, you don't have to worry about them going anywhere unlike other unknown questionable web hosting services.

Current Special Offer - Web Hosting: Waived setup fee of $25 with Unlimited Hosting Plan.

Current Special Offer - eCommerce Hosting: Interested in starting an online store, receive 35% off for a limited time! .

Hosting Plans & Features

The below chart lists all the benefits offer from Yahoo Web Hosting. Another major benefit includes a 30 Day Risk Free Guarantee and this is without any penalty fees. All hosting plans offer a Unix operating system environment (FreeBSD) and Apache servers. Currently their $25 setup fee is waived. Design and scripting tools included are Perl, PHP and MySQL. The also support design tools for Frontpage and Adobe Dream Weaver.

Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting.
Hosting Plans	Unlimited
Setup Fee	WAIVED
Monthly Fee	$11.95 with a 3 month term.
Data Transfer	Unlimited
Disk Space	Unlimited
Domain Included	Yes
Email Accounts	1,000 with Unlimited Storage
FTP Access	Yes
Site Backups	Every 4 hours
Control Panel	Yes
Site Statistics	Yes
Marketing Discounts	$100 credit toward Yahoo! Search Marketing 30% off Yahoo! Local Enhanced Listings $50 credit toward Google AdWords
Phone & Email Support	24/7

* Chart last checked February 25, 2008. Always confirm pricing, etc. before you sign up.

Are you planning to start or, are using another ecommerce solution in which you are not happy with? You may want to take a look at Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. Merchant Solutions makes it easy for any new comer to design a professional looking store in a few minutes with the functionality of a full featured ecommerce website. You can completely customize your store design to get the look you want. Plus there is support for third party tools.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions
eCommerce Plans	Starter	Standard	Professional
Setup Fee	$50	$50	$50
Transaction Fee	1.5%	1.0%	0.75%
Monthly Fee	$39.95	$99.95	$299.95
Recommend plan if expected sales of	Up to $12K/mo.	$12K-$80K/mo.	More than $80K/mo.
Product Promotion Cross-selling Gift Certificates Coupons	No No Yes	Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes

* Chart last checked February 25, 2008. Always confirm pricing, etc. before you sign up.

You can add up to 50,000 products for sale and products are easy to add with a step-by-step wizard or you can upload your existing product database. Yahoos shopping cart and checkout system is almost completely customizable. You can setup customized fields and automatically calculate taxes and shipping. Up selling and cross selling is available during checkout as well as discount pricing and volume pricing. There is support for gift wrapping options, shipping and downloadable products. Your store pages are search engine friendly and you get a multitude of credits for both Yahoo and Google search marketing.

For more information on Yahoo! Merchant Solutions check out Yahoos own detailed comparison chart that also includes definitions of some terms beginners may not be familiar with. If you are interested in starting an online store, you can now try Yahoos solution with 35% off for a limited time!

Other Related Services Offered

Yahoo also offers other services related to owning and running a web site. These include registering of domain names and their popular Internet advertising, Yahoo! Sponsored Search.

• Yahoo! Sponsored Search lists your business on top sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN. Sign up and get a $25 credit.
• Register your domain at Yahoo! Only $1.99/1st year. After the first year the price is $9.95/year.

Cost & Value

While slightly more expensive than other web hosting providers, Yahoo offeres excellent customer support, reliability and many tools for beginners. These tools include integrated installation of popular blogs like WordPress, standard surveys and email forms, web calandars, phpBB bulletin board, plus many other web site enhancements. Other perks you will receive includes $100 and $50 coupons to use towards advertising your business with Yahoo! Sponsored Search and Google Adwords.

Reliability & Performance

Reliaibility is always a key factor in a web host. With a server up time of over 99.9% you can't go wrong. Their web hosting servers use the same reliable infrastructure as rest of the Yahoo! network with multiple redundant links to internet backbones. Plus, all of their web hosting servers use Unix and Apache so you know you will have a stable and secure enviroment for your web site. All servers include SpamGuard Plus and Norton AntiVirus installations to help prevent the spread of viruses through your email accounts and on your web site.

Customer Support

All service plans offer 24 hour toll free phone support. This also includes an online help tech center with quick reply email support, detailed "Getting Started" guides and video tutorials.

Conclusion

If you don't want to worry about a thing and have excellect Customer Service, Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting is your safest choice on the internet today. In my opinion this makes their slightly higher monthly price worth it. If your needs include more advanced features in web hosting and you consider yourself a web power user you may want to consider another option.

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