Your Questions About Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting

admin answers:

Yes, all pages and files on a standard web site will have a direct URL. To answer your question more specifically, we would need to know what site building tool you are using.

If you need any help, contact us anytime at:
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/contactus

admin answers:

First let me say I am a professional web designer and you do NOT want to host on Yahoo. It is in my opinion second worst hosting company that I know of.

Go to http://www.samwilson3d.com , there is a list of hosts (right side menu) they all have cpanel and something called “fantastico” the least expensive of these plans is around $50 per YEAR

Godaddy has given me problems of every kind including MySQL and FTP problems and they are just a pain in the butt

Now depending on what kind of site you want, I recommend Coppermine Photo Gallery or Joomla or Zen cart which is a 1 click install using Fantastico, you can make this look however you want bu only using Photoshop and CSS. I would start with a premade template designed for Coppermine and then make adjustments from there to make the site the way you want it.(the template can just be a starting point or you can not use one at all)

Joomla can also be installed with one click using Fantastico and that may also be the way to go.

-there are about 20 different 1-click install solutions that you can install and customize with Fantastico

admin answers:

I’ve tried various differing hosting providers who’ve had many problems.
For the last 4 years now, I’ve been hosted with http://www.hostmonsterplus.com and haven’t been happier since nor considered changing again.

I’d personally refund my money from Yahoo as I hear they’re almost as unreliable as GoDaddy.

And I’ll give you my recommendation of http://www.hostmonsterplus.com
They have uncapped storage and transfer.
They will give you a free domain for the life of your account.
They have php and mysql, i use these all the time.
You can also add as many domains (.com, .net, …) as you like so you can have many different sites for 1 hosting price.
They also give you free $50 Google Credits for advertising your site.

If you go with them and have any trouble making your site feel free to PM me, I have a lot of experience there.

Whatever you choose to do, the best of luck to you.

admin answers:

If you’re only loading static pages, you may be okay with Yahoo Web Hosting, but forget it if you use dynamic content with a database. (I believe this includes all of the popular blogging tools.)

I recently set up a PHP/MySQL site on yahoo hosting, and through Google Analytics discovered a few weeks ago that my traffic had dropped considerably for no apparent reason. When I went to my site, I got a message (built into the open source CMS I use) saying that the site couldn’t connect to the database.

I spent an hour or so on hold to reach a rep by phone, and the rep was courteous, etc. After some research, the rep told me there were others reporting this problem, and the cause was the web servers not connecting with the database servers. They sent a follow up email a day or so later saying the problem was fixed, blah blah, but it wasn’t. I had to send a couple of messages back and forth to convince them the problem was still present, explaining that I had set up Google Analytics to log the error message.

After a few days the problem disappeared for a week or so, but now is back with a vengeance. Now it takes longer for the error to appear on-screen, sometimes a couple of minutes, meaning most visitors won’t even stick around long enough for my error message to appear.

I’m shopping around for a new provider.