Yahoo Web Hosting is the web hosting service by Yahoo!. It has received Editor's Choice Award by PC Magazine in 2005 for Small Business Hosting. It currently offers unlimited hosting space and unlimited data transfer for small business hosting. It offers php (V4.3.11), MySql and Perl support. Related services include Yahoo Domains- domain hosting and Yahoo Merchant Solutions - e commerce hosting.
And I'll let you in on a little secret. Even though it says "Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting" you don't need to be a small business to use it. Individuals and Big Business can use it equally well. It's MT for anyone.
Given that blog hosting services seem to be a dime a dozen, why would you bother considering Yahoo? Here are a few reasons (thanks to Anil for helping with this list):
- Yahoo! scales. Yahoo can handle it when a blog gets slashdotted. No sweat.
- You probably already know this, but Y! Search Blog and the Y! Developer Network both use MT (of course, I set both of those up, so I might be a bit biased).
- Yahoo! servers run FastCGI, which is an order of magnitude faster than typical hosting environments. It might have been possible to rig this up yourself with a lot of work in the past, but now it's just there.
- No need to install MT. Really. No tarballs. No chmodding. Hallelujah. Upgrades are easy too.
- Lots of pre-installed plugins: stylecatcher, spamlookup, nofollow, wysiwyg, Yahoo! search, BigPAPI. Plus there's plugins for all your favorite Yahoo services, from Flickr to del.icio.us.
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