opinions for Yahoo Web Hosting (webhosting.yahoo.com)
Gail Matano ( gmat13(at)optonline dot net ) at: 2008-03-24 Time Hosted: 2 to 3 years General Rating note:
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82 out of 90Web-Hosting-Top users found this review to be helpful!
When I changed my internet provider, and my email changed, my website stopped working. Yahoo doesn't have the right to keep charging me for a website that they stopped. I have spent over 5 hours on the phone, it was sent to "engineering", and was supposed to be fixed within 3 to 5 business days. I'm still waiting 2 weeks later, with no response! I've sent countless emails, only to receive generic automated responses. I am going to change my webhosting service, and stop Yahoo payment on my credit card. It will be a lot easier than to try to get someone to actually try to help me at Yahoo!
Raj ( ) at: 2008-03-10 Time Hosted: under 1 month. General Rating note:
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66 out of 76Web-Hosting-Top users found this review to be helpful!
Yahoo's has worst customer service. I couldn't speak to customer service agent even after waiting on phone for more than an hour.
luis flores ( jp_rda(at)yahoo dot com ) at: 2008-02-27 Time Hosted: 3 to 6 months General Rating note:
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98 out of 100Web-Hosting-Top users found this review to be helpful!
We use site for administrative tools (prices, inventory, invoices, etc) Suddenly site sent a "forbidden" Message, no acces to MYSQL, imposible to reach them by phone, Mail answers are a joke, automated answers, they dont read your problems!!!: "your problem is temporary and will be fixed soon, ..." same responswe always. Really disappointed, but if site is not critical to you it may be ok.
Jean Pickering ( jpic333(at)hotmail(dot)com ) at: 2007-05-22 Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years General Rating note:
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250 out of 339Web-Hosting-Top users found this review to be helpful!
Your review does not match my experience. Here are the facts. I sent emails to which Yahoo's support team never responded. Their URL redirection for subdomains does not work. They only allow one user ID for MySQL databases which creates a security risk for sites that use a database. It took 5 days for their technical staff to solve a php mail problem. During that time, they did not respond to my inquiries and the pages that used php mail on my client's web site did not work. Their technical staff is not 24 by 7. Their price is higher than other web hosting plans that offer more services.
Perhaps on the surface, they look good, but once you start actually using their services, they seem to lack the technical expertise and support staff to host professional web sites.
1websitedesign ( submissions(at)1websitedesign(dot)net ) at: 2007-04-27 Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months General Rating note:
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86 out of 167Web-Hosting-Top users found this review to be helpful!
London based website design company offers website design, shopping cart development, web development, SEO services, server administration services, web hosting.
keeper of stores ( storekeeper at gmail dot com ) at: 2006-01-09 Time Hosted: under 1 month. General Rating note:
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176 out of 310Web-Hosting-Top users found this review to be helpful!
The reason why I rated this the lowest possible, is because of their Terms of services located at
"9.2 Content Ownership
Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content You place on Your Service. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on Your Service, You grant Yahoo and its successors and assigns, the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license under Your copyrights and other intellectual property rights, if any, in all material and content displayed in Your website to use, distribute, display, reproduce, and create derivative works from such material in any and all media and display in any manner and on any Yahoo property the results of search queries and comparisons conducted on Yahoo, including, without limitation, searches conducted on Yahoo Shopping and the Service. You also grant Yahoo the right to maintain such content on Yahoo's servers during the term of these Terms and to authorize the downloading and printing of such material, or any portion thereof, by end-users for their personal use . "
It generally means that they have all the rights to do whatever they please with your website content, even selling it.
Robbing my content, and even binding me legally to it through their ToS is what I call the worst kind of host ever. I suggest to never host with them, unless you have nothing interesting to place on your website. Perhaps then it is somewhat safe to use them as host.
After I found that www.ixwebhosting.com is really the best around in terms of service and quality ToS. My only problem has been that I couldn't afford them, but I am going to host a few websites of friends at subdomains at a very low cost, so that I can afford the hosting package :)
If anyone finds a better quality host that offers more than ixwebhosting, and is very reliable, then do mail me, I am always interested ;)
aenima666 ( aenima666(at)videotron(dot)ca ) at: 2005-09-01 Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months General Rating note:
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251 out of 379Web-Hosting-Top users found this review to be helpful!
How secure is their database.......I've been billed for something I didn't buy from them. I has previously bought 2 domains from Yahoo and then a couple of months later I'm getting billed for a hosting plan when I actually have my own dedicated server. This is ridiculous.
At least, Yahoo were pretty fast to correct the situation and did reimbursed the amount billed to my credit card. The same thing was different with www.1and1.com tho, they basically told me to fuck off. So I'm transfering the domains to my own domain registration company http://domains.binair-ehosting.net. I haven't seen any SSL certificates for both of the companies, Yahoo and 1&1 that is, something which even my starting company can afford.
I think they would have to get their stuff reviewed a bit in order to offer more secured transactions and secured information in databases.
