Yahoo Hosting

1. Please, don’t bump – it doesn’t help and will annoy the helpers around here.
2. I don’t have first hand experience with more than 2 hosts, so I am not going to endorse any company based on “hearsay” ??
3. Yes, sometimes I warn users about certain hosts, if I’ve encountered repeated problems raised by users here.
4. I am happy with my host: all the WP features work as they are supposed to, never had problems with permalinks, trackbacks, pings, feeds and other issues that seem to be a perpetual problem around here at every upgrade. Too bad they don’t have an affiliate program to get paid if I recommend them, LOL…

“Please, don’t bump – it doesn’t help and will annoy the helpers around here.”

Did you notice the 20 hour time difference before you even thought about posting “annoying helpers”? Believe me, I am not LOL like you choose to close your above statement with.

All we want to know is a reputable host that someone with some authority (meaning you as a moderator on the WP forum) would suggest we look into. That shouldn’t be considered an official endorsement, everyone has an opinion.

And of course, you close without mentioning one, again wasting my time.

Fact is, I have firsthand knowledge with two of the host companies that are listed on this WP host site and they both suck, DreamHost & Yahoo. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it. Of course, no host, no blog. I know, my loss. Wait ’til I get another blog though!

EDIT: Even going here https://wordpress.com/ (which is for WordPress to host you) says nothing about what they offer or what you can or cannot do.

BillyG, chill and go get an account with https://www.bluehost.com

I’ve never had a problem with them.

From the hosting page, in two years here I have never seen a single complaint about Laughingsquid.

A Small Orange are very good.
Site5 are good.

Below10: They are excellent. Why you didn’t receive a reply mail I have no idea (unless you were as impolite with them as you have been here lately); I’ve never been more than 20 minutes waiting for them to respond even before I set up with them.

Moshu: Below10 was ref’d in the post you linked to on bj’s blog.

Getting mixed signal about Bluehost. Here’s its fine, but refer to:-

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/56453?replies=3

So how? ??

I’m currently with Powweb (which is no longer recommended, btw). Speed issues and limited mySQL dbs prompted me to hint for a new host. Whadayaknow? WP recommends Yahoo! So off I jumped with both feet in.

It took 3 days to migrate my site (luckily the original is still live). Had so many stumbling blocks (not all due to Yahoo :)), and their built in plugins caused lotsa of unnecessary issues. To date (day 5), there are things not functioning properly and needs tinkering.

No tech skill + no support= lotsa frustration and wasted time. I’m just about ready to pack it. On a features vs price consideration, Bluehost seems sooo tempting.

I haven’t noticed any issues that that article refers to. The only issue I’ve had (I use Bluehost) in the last couple weeks was using FTP. I called them and they told me to switch to passive mode, which fixed the problem.
I’ve been with them for quite awhile now and am very satisfied. I finally dumped Yahoo because of zero support on their side.
All I can tell you, dmagus, is that I’ve never had a problem with them.

For what it is worth, and let me know if anyone has had any problems with them so I can look out in the future. I use hostgator.com. Three things, I have had sites with them for over a year and a half and haven’t run into anything I couldn’t do on my own (seems to be wide open whether it is a good thing or not). Two, you can offer reseller hosting and try to make a buck or two back for only a few dollars more, or if you have multiple domains, it is a great way to save on your hosting costs. Three, cpanel, fanstico (which will install wordpress 1.5 for you), mysql, phpmyadmin, and tons of scripts.
I resell their server space and sell it for less than they do and they give me the software to do it. I have operated more than three wp installs on one domain (my kids blog pages) and have never had a database error yet.
Hope this may help some.

I can offer my little experience here as a few names mentioned above are familiar. I have been with dreamhost for about 10 days, so much trouble I left to Site5. I still have account with them and still getting server down emails from Dreamhost from time to time. However they are good in paying you back.

Site5 is small but people are great there if you are newbie/no-brainer like me go for them.

I recently joined Yahoo, just for fun, created some troubles for myself but that was good for learning.

Don’t expect the kind of humanly service like smaller hostings, you don’t get straight answers most of them time and all the time you don’t get answers to all your questions. Just don’t use them if you are new to hosting.

They don’t run Apache at the backend, that’s for sure. So your permalink must have /index.php/ prefix, that’s in the instruction so follow it you’ll be OK. I have initial problems creating database but that was probably due to my lack of knowledge about phpMyAdmin, can’t blame Yahoo. I haven’t fallen in love with 2.0 yet so I manually installed 1.5.2 without much hassle so I won’t say Yahoo has a major issue with database user and the like. I did ask them to manually grant me full privileges such that I could reload mysql, it was done OK. Their ftp server isn’t very stable, be ware of transferring folders with lots of files.

Once in a while you can’t login to phpMyAdmin and I have to say their servers are not fast comparing to smaller hosting.

My warning is that don’t use them if you are new to hosting.

I used Yahoo as a host quite a few years ago. Just like gdvw I found them to be rather expensive for what they offered, and I hadn’t done any research/didn’t know better. I currently use https://www.realwebhost.com/ for my wordpress blog and I’m very happy with them. I’ve been with them for about a year and a half to two years.

Hi all,

One more thing about Yahoo is that, you pay by month instead of yearly payment for smaller hostings, i.e. you can quit and within 30days you can rejoin. I haven’t yet looked into how to quit presumably I don’t need to serve notice or anything like that so maximum lost is a month’s fee. Anybody has cancellation experience for Yahoo here?

Have to say again, practice your backup and restore of database just in case.

Most hosts will allow for month to month payments. I know mine does. They just offer the annual payment as a cheaper overall option, and if you leave you do get your money back for the time you didn’t use. Just my opinion – but if you see 30 day payments as a perk because you can leave without worrying about refunds then you’re with the wrong host (same goes for personal relationships). :p

Choose Yahoo! hosting is the worst choice I ever made and it really gives bad publicity to wordpress. My site was contantly down, at times I couldn’t even connect to my webhosting manager.

I run a popular weblog and when big sites like Yahoo! (ironically) linked to my site, giving me spectacular exposure, it wend down again.

It’s funny to see that the Yahoo! search pages are never down because they’re a big business. It’s not because we run small businesses that we have to be treated like sh*t.

Stay away from Yahoo! hosting at all costs! I’ve been with them for two weeks and I’m switching. Damn, even the robbers and liars over at lunarpages have a higher uptime.

And one last thing, when a customer send two mails for support and is completely ignored, it’s not Yahoo! anymore, it’s Yapooh!

Look at the bottom:
https://www.ads-software.com/hosting/

“Damn, even the robbers and liars over at lunarpages have a higher uptime.”

ptambwe, I’m interested why are you saying this? I’ve had them for several years and I’ve never had a reason to complain. Price, is good, if they need to do server work they warn you 1 week ahead that it’ll take 15 minutes, they respond very fast to your enqueries etc. etc.