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| Best choice for beginners serious about web hosting; great interface and support; exclusive discount | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [Editor's Note: Yahoo! is offering NextAdvisor visitors 25% off their web hosting for the first three months. There's no coupon code necessary, just follow any of the links to Yahoo! Small Business from NextAdvisor.com. Also, they are offering 35% off the first three months of their Merchant Solutions program and waiving the $50 sign-up fee; just follow the links in our review.]
Yahoo! Small Business web hosting is one of the few stand-outs in web hosting, and will be perfect for the beginning site owner who doesn't really know what to expect from web hosting. It's the one to be recommended for the less tech-savvy among us. The basic web hosting plan is $9.99 per month, though Yahoo! generally discounts the first three months. This makes it a little pricier than some, but still a great choice for the beginning web master. Even though domain registration and set-up are free, domain privacy will cost an additional $.99 a month. We recommend domain privacy, particularly for individual users. As with many web hosts, your domain registration is free for as long as you host with them. It's somewhat confusing that Yahoo! calls its only web hosting plan Yahoo! Small Business, when, in fact, it's also a fine choice for individuals. However, a shopping site with a fairly substantial catalogue of goods will want to move up to Yahoo!'s more expensive Merchant Solutions. On the other hand, those that want to build a simple PayPal-based store can't go wrong here. It easily has the most intuitive PayPal-based shopping cart builder out there, though the features aren't as robust as those included with the Fantastico-based CubeCart available from many web hosts. While most web hosts use the ubiquitous cPanel to let users administer their site, Yahoo! has made its own control panel. It's clean and friendly and showcases site statistics in an engaging way. Advanced users will find it lacking in special features, but first-timers will find it easy to deal with. Likewise, using the built-in site construction software is a breeze. Yahoo!'s templates are some of the nicest available and the WYSIWYG editor is very intuitive. What's more, you can easily add widgets that display weather, maps, stock prices, and more. The popular Wordpress blogging platform is easy to install. There's also an alternative downloadable site creation application available for Windows that looks to offer even more flexibility. Yahoo! demonstrated the advantages of its large worldwide network with better-than-average scores for uptime, response time, and download speeds. See the chart below for details. For uptime, higher percentages are better. For all others, lower numbers indicate better performance. Yahoo! test data:
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| Cheapest Price: | $6.47/mo for 3 mos; $9.95/mo after |
| 1 Year Price: | $108.96/yr; $6.47/mo for 3 mos; $9.95/mo after (first year only) |
| $ Back Guarantee: | 30-day full refund, no prorated refund after; $7 domain charge |
| Domain: | Free for life |
| Support: | Email, Phone |
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