Comments on: Yahoo Offers Unlimited Web Hosting!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:05:21 +0000

I’m starting to agree with Sarah.

I have Yahoo hosting one blog and have had no problem, but I’ve been trying to launch another blog and it’s been about 3 months and they haven’t been able yet to fix the problem. They keep charging me every month, too.

The five days are almost up when they told me someone would call, and I’ve been through this several times: sometimes thy call; sometimes they don’t. Well, we’ll see what happens…

By: Justin Dupre

Justin Dupre — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:16:28 +0000

Haha, yup. I’m on Dreamhost. That hit I took with them charging me two extra years was a nice overcharge on my debit card. Other than that, I haven’t had problems with them. If they do it again, I’m out of here.

Justin

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:09:01 +0000

I don’t trust Yahoo’s hosting. Too many friends have had their sites just shut down, or they were constantly up and down, much like DreamHost is now, who have very similar plans.

By: Justin Dupre

Justin Dupre — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:39:08 +0000

Could be such. Guess we just have to sit back and see what happens. Hopefully that isn’t so, and we will see something truly amazing happen, but I understand what you are saying completely.

Justin

By: nitro2k01

nitro2k01 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:36:53 +0000

Remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Their “unlimited” account is probably somewhat limited and restricted by “fair use” or something like that. Just as with Comcast. One year from now I anticipate a storm of Yahoo web hosting users that have got their accounts closed for no apparent reason.
For example I imagine Yahoo would suspend my account if I used signed up and used it to backup up all my files which are probably nearing 1 TB worth of storage by now. (That’s a bit drasical, but I just wanted to make a point)

Also, I doubt they have support for PHP or any other server side scripting. Instead they probably have their own blog and commerce software, that they possibly sell separately.