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Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/18/05 17:57
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:59:25 -0500, Ross <Ross@prodigy.com> wrote:
>That's why I want to know what's bad with Yahoo hosting? What's your
>opinion?
First of all, I wouldn't want to do anything with Yahoo because the
Yahoo branding is visible on it and that hurts the business' own image.
Secondly I just don't _trust_ Yahoo. There are any number of privacy
issues with Yahoo, going back for years. I even quit all my contact with
egroups (including the W3C lists hosted there) when Yahoo bought them,
because of this.
Thirdly I've had technical dealings with Yahoo from time to time before
and never found their technical competence to be impressive. Better than
MSN, admittedly.
Fourthly (and this is the main one) I don't like their domain
registration system for a register+host package deal. Just read the
traffic hereabouts for what a perennial nightmare this is, if you ever
want to move hosting somewhere else. It's often said that you should
never register where you host, and not without good reason. Personally I
do use a combined host and registrar, but I consider that particular
host to be more trustworthy than typical.
Finally, those prices aren't even impressive. Now I don't actually care
about this (the hosting charge is one of the smallest costs in the whole
deal) but that's not a price that's making me sit up and think "oh,
that's cheap".
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