Yahoo Small Business
Is This Your Business?Author: Jenna Vasquez
Yahoo is primarily known for its search engines, but its websites are a force to be reckoned with, too. In 2013, for the first time since 2011, Yahoo surpassed Google for the number of visitors to its websites in the United States. In 2013, Yahoo reported 196 million American visitors to its websites. Monthly, worldwide, 700 million people visit a Yahoo website. Yahoo has been in business since 1994. For a while, Yahoo operated GeoCities, which offered free websites. Now, Yahoo has moved its users towards its small business web hosting. These sites are aimed to meet the needs of individuals and small businesses.
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The Good
- Great Features
- Easy to Build and Manage
Great Features
Yahoo offers many desirable features for small and medium businesses to build and operate a website. We found the following positive features and information about Yahoo hosting:
- Many unlimited features including site pages and email addresses
- Site design tools included
- PHP and Perl programming languages
- Small business blog
Easy to Get Started
Yahoo Small Business is perfect for the small business owners to build and manage their own website freely and easily. Customers will not need to download tools to build a site. This makes running a live website quick and simple.
The Bad
- Limited Options
- Only Shared Web Hosting
Limitations
The only negative aspects of Yahoo's Small Business web hosting services were in the limited options available for its basic server package. With only 100 GB of storage and 1 TB of bandwidth per month, the basic package limits the resources that a small business owner can put online. Also, Yahoo Small Businesses web hosting does not offer more advanced administrative functions, such as Shell Access (SSH).
Only Shared Hosting Options
Yahoo offers only one hosting option which is shared, greatly limiting its customers' potential. We would like to see Yahoo extend its services to include dedicated, cloud, managed and VPS web hosting options. Yahoo customers would benefit more from customized plans that included these other hosting options.
The Bottom Line
We recommend Yahoo's Small Business hosting service for individuals or small businesses. We found that its templates and designs were easy for the small business owner and individual to manage. Yahoo Small Businesses ranks really high in usability, offering the best features for clients who owned and operated a website, either as individuals or as a business. We do not recommend its services to anyone who is not in need of shared web hosting.
