| Yahoo! is the undisputed number one destination | | | | another reason that sets Yahoo! Small Business |
| on the Internet with more than 379 million | | | | services above the others. With virtually unlimited |
| monthly users worldwide. If you are looking for | | | | databases you can add lots of advanced features |
| web hosting services for your business you might | | | | to your web site including: customer databases |
| be well advised to consider the fact that Yahoo! is | | | | for use with electronic commerce, blogging, |
| home to more than 30 million web sites and that | | | | interactive message boards, and other database |
| they manage over 50 terabytes of data. It is | | | | driven content management applications like |
| easier than you may think to get all the | | | | phpNuke. Yahoo! Small Business provides scripting |
| advantages of reliability, performance, and search | | | | tools like PHP and Perl that make advanced |
| engine popularity that comes from being at the | | | | database programming a snap. |
| top of the Internet. | | | | Yahoo! Small Business web hosting accounts come |
| Yahoo! Small Business offers three virtual web | | | | with a $100 Yahoo! Search Marketing credit and a |
| hosting plans for small business. They are: (1) | | | | $50 Google AdWords credit. Your business web |
| starter (2) standard and (3) professional. Each plan | | | | site will need these advertising services and this |
| provides a free domain name with no renewal | | | | provides a great opportunity to learn valuable skills |
| fees for as long as you host with Yahoo! The | | | | that you will use over and over again. |
| starter plan is offered beginning at $8.96 per | | | | Yahoo! performance is monitored by Netcraft and |
| month and that includes 5 gigabytes of disk | | | | free reports are updated every 15 minutes so |
| space, 200 gigabytes of monthly transfer, and | | | | you can always check to make sure you are |
| 200 email addresses. The standard plan is offered | | | | getting outstanding service. The reports provide |
| starting at $14.96 per month and it provides 10 | | | | data on four performance parameters: (1) first |
| gigabytes of disk space, 400 gigabytes of | | | | byte (2) connect (3) DNS and (4) total. Our |
| monthly data transfer, and 500 email accounts. | | | | review did uncover a small number of user |
| The professional plan is offered starting at $26.96 | | | | complaints that the speed of web pages |
| per month and it provides 20 gigabytes of disk | | | | transferred from Yahoo! was slow. Further |
| space, 500 gigabytes of monthly data transfer, | | | | investigation did reveal performance numbers that |
| and 1,000 email addresses. Yahoo! Small Business | | | | were somewhat less than expected. However, |
| is especially competitive if you are developing a | | | | properly designed and optimized pages should |
| new business web site because they do not | | | | operate well within the performance range |
| require a long-term contract but allow you to rent | | | | expected by the majority of users. |
| their service on a month to month basis. | | | | Management of your web site at Yahoo! is a |
| If you are new to building websites Yahoo! Small | | | | breeze because of their web hosting control panel. |
| Business provides a free software package called | | | | Everything from setting up email accounts, |
| Yahoo! SiteBuilder that was designed to make | | | | obtaining monthly web site statistics, to web site |
| web site creation easy. This is software that you | | | | development and maintenance can be easily |
| download to your Windows operating system. For | | | | controlled using one standardized interface. Yahoo! |
| this review we downloaded version 2.3.1 along | | | | allows you to have control over your own DNS |
| with 380+ templates and more than 3,400 | | | | so you can modify MX, A, and CNAME records. |
| images that can be used to develop a multi-page | | | | Yahoo! has the best email service on the Internet |
| web site without the need to know the web | | | | providing each mailbox with 2 GB of storage |
| programming language HyperText Markup | | | | space. Yahoo! spam controls can't stop all junk |
| Language (HTML). The software comes with | | | | mail but they do a great job that significantly |
| handy tutorials to help guide you through every | | | | reduces the volume that users have to deal with. |
| development activity. Yahoo! Small Business | | | | Yahoo! allows the transfer of email messages |
| shows off several business quality web sites that | | | | with enormous 20 MB file attachments. |
| have been developed using these templates. | | | | Yahoo! Small Business is an outstanding value and |
| However, if you prefer to use a professional web | | | | is highly recommended. This review is only an |
| development system such as Adobe | | | | overview of the capabilities provided with Yahoo! |
| Dreamweaver you will find Yahoo! Small Business | | | | Small Business web hosting accounts. A more |
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| technologies like Flash and Fireworks. | | | | with other web hosting providers, is available at |
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