Yahoo webhosting

I am new to this webbuilding business.
With my limited knowledge I found Yahoo's offer attractive.
Could all you old hands advise the pros and cons of signing up with Yahoo,
or are there better alternatives?

Any help/comments will be most appreciated.

By the way I want to built a website for a small business.

Regards.

Timmy

On 10 Sep 2003, timmymay@hotmail.com (tim) wrote:

>Could all you old hands advise the pros and cons of signing up with Yahoo,
>or are there better alternatives?

>By the way I want to built a website for a small business.

A small business is likely to want its own domain name. I don't know
anything about the Yahoo! setup and whether you'd get some URL that
mentions Yahoo! (or a banner or similar) but you'd maybe do better
looking at www.budgetweb.com (I have used it off and on for a few
years to find low cost hosting) and/or www.nameroute.com (not my
site - I've been a customer of www.nameroute.co.uk) but also you
may find hosting and domain rtegistration for as little as $9.99
a year (on Ebay - I've also found bargains there). I know this
is off topic for alt.FREEwebhosting but if the website is for a
business user, then their own domain and webhosting (rather than
frames to some free webspace) looks far more professional and has
advantages with search engine listings too (a whole new story). HTH

Yahoo webhosting should be reliable.
But not sure how personal is their support.

Maybe you can try go www.WebHostingTalk.com
There are many webhosting providers there. Just state your requirement, you
will get a bunch of cheap hosting offers. I recommend you to do some
research to find the webhost's reliability. Some are cheap and provide low
server uptime. Some are good but price will still be reasonable.

If you want to register a cheap domain, i recommend you to go
http://domain.RackShack.net, you can get it for $5.41 per year
(.com/.net/.org)
RackShack is a reputable company in my opinion.
Or you can try www.NameCheap.com, register domain at $8.88 per year.

In addition to the above sources (self-advertising here), you might want to
take a look at www.NeonHQ.com




"tim" <timmymay@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am new to this webbuilding business.
> With my limited knowledge I found Yahoo's offer attractive.
> Could all you old hands advise the pros and cons of signing up with Yahoo,
> or are there better alternatives?
>
> Any help/comments will be most appreciated.
>
> By the way I want to built a website for a small business.
>
> Regards.
>
> Timmy

timmymay@hotmail.com (tim) wrote in message news:<f7ba8f8.0309092319.2a31b9ab@posting.google.c om>...
> I am new to this webbuilding business.
> With my limited knowledge I found Yahoo's offer attractive.
> Could all you old hands advise the pros and cons of signing up with Yahoo,
> or are there better alternatives?
>
> Any help/comments will be most appreciated.
>
> By the way I want to built a website for a small business.
>
> Regards.
>
> Timmy

Since this is the freewebhosting group, I'm guessing you need free
webhosting, right? In that case I'll recommend you visit
http://www.fateback.com and check out their hosting. Its free and far
more reliable than other free web hosting providers.





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Yahoo is OK but not great for getting customer service on the phone.
You may also want to consider something like Verio, or for a more
affordable budget web hosting option, there area number of pretty good
solutions --

The have options from the following Web Hosts:

Company Monthly (setup) Yearly
(setup) Support Platform Storage/Trsf Review
Easy-CGI $9.95 (Free) $7.96 (Free) 800#/Email Windows 100MB/5GB Full
Review
iPowerWeb $9.95 ($30) $7.92
(Free) 800#/Email Unix/Linux 500MB/30GB Full Review
LunarPages $9.95 ($30) $7.92 (Free) 800#/Email Unix 300MB/20GB Full
Review
Globat $9.95 ($39.95) $7.50 (Free) Email UNIX
FreeBSD 1,000MB/50GB Full Review
JumpLine
(6 domains) $16.95 ($30)
($2.83/mo each) $14.95 ($15)
($2.49/mo each) 800#/Email Linux 200MB/7.5GB Full Review
Infinology $12.95 ($50) $6.95 ($50) Email Unix,
Windows 9,000MB/50GB Full Review
Apollo $19.95 ($10) $15.92 ($10) 800#/Email Linux 200MB/10GB Full
Review
Your-Site $6.00 (free) $5.00 (free) Phone/Email Unix 50MB/6GB Full
Review
HostSave $7.95 (free) $7.58 (free) Email Unix 100MB/5GB Full Review
PowWeb $7.77 ($20) $7.75 (free) Phone/Email Linux 650MB/45GB Full
Review
ThinkHost $8.95 ($10) $8.95 ($10) Email Unix 20MB/1GB Full Review
Website-Source $9.95 ($30) $7.92
(free) 800#/Online Linux 200MB/6GB Full Review
HostRocket $14.95 (free) $11.95 (free) Online Linux 200MB/6GB Full
Review
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timmymay@hotmail.com (tim) wrote in message news:<f7ba8f8.0309092319.2a31b9ab@posting.google.c om>...
> I am new to this webbuilding business.
> With my limited knowledge I found Yahoo's offer attractive.
> Could all you old hands advise the pros and cons of signing up with Yahoo,
> or are there better alternatives?
>
> Any help/comments will be most appreciated.
>
> By the way I want to built a website for a small business.
>
> Regards.
>
> Timmy

Many thanks to all who responded.
I find your comments/advice most helpfull.
P.S Iam not looking for free-webhosting but an affordable one which is good.
Regards

Tim

"tim" <timmymay@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Many thanks to all who responded.
> I find your comments/advice most helpfull.
> P.S Iam not looking for free-webhosting but an affordable one which is
good.
> Regards
>
> Tim

Hello,

I am Dan from www.Dynamohosting.net . I am not sure if your still looking
for web hosting, but you might want to take a look at our site at
www.DynamoHosting.net . We provide live support, 99.9% uptime, great
prices, and total customer satisfaction.

Thanks,
Dan
www.DynamoHosting.net

I can't tell you anything about Yahoo but I can tell you...do not use
Hostmyweb.net (in Toronto). I had to renew my domain through them but did
not renew my webhosting through them because of poor service throughout the
year. Because of this...they took my money for the renewal of the
domain...promised to sign me up and disappeared. When I finally got through
to them they said they hadn't received my money although one of their
employees said they've received it and would be processed immediately.

If it wasn't for CIRA(Cdn Internet Registration Authority), telling me that
I had to renew through them because of a previous problem...I would have
never dealt with them at all.
Also, they offered a free domain when I signed up which they never came
through on. Now they don't return my calls or answer my email. Great
Service.

Altogether they ripped me off for about $80.00. I'll probably never see that
money but if I can stop someone from signing up with them...that's reward
enough for me.

Good Luck

Rob



"tim" <timmymay@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f7ba8f8.0309092319.2a31b9ab@posting.google.co m...
> I am new to this webbuilding business.
> With my limited knowledge I found Yahoo's offer attractive.
> Could all you old hands advise the pros and cons of signing up with Yahoo,
> or are there better alternatives?
>
> Any help/comments will be most appreciated.
>
> By the way I want to built a website for a small business.
>
> Regards.
>
> Timmy