Yahoo! WebHosting – Long way to go Before Yahoo! Sleeps

I tried Yahoo! WebHosting (WH) to develop my Website initially as the cost of developing a Website from an Indian company has become prohibitively high when so much technologies are available.

I tried some companies in Bangalore who ask for payment in terms of dollar rates. The rates are almost of international standard (read developed countries). However, in India, it is not going to work. Even Yahoo! quotes now in INR and Star TV goes for a serial like KSVKBT. MNCs who are not from India have realized pretty soon.

So, I decided to develop the complete website from scratch and did it in one night (here companies in Bangalore quoted me around 2/3 weeks of development and cost wise it would have been around 25K INR) and nobody knows how much slippage would have occurred till you see the final one.

Below is a feed-back on Yahoo! WH, if anyone is trying to have it for a WH.

What you need to know?

1. Basic knowledge on HTML, JavaScript, XML, FTP, Mail Forms, Feedback Forms (an Offshoot of HTML)

2. Basic knowledge on search engine crawler and how to put your website in the rankings

3. Basic knowledge on Cloud Computing based document loading, formatting etc.

What is good about Yahoo! WH?

1. It provides Online Document creation and formatting for your pages – removes the pain of doing FTP again and again

2. A number of templates to choose from and you can modify them as well

3. Views, Unique views per page of your Website

4. Other standard functionalities which any WH provide – FTP, Perl Script, HTML editor, SSL etc.

5. Unlimited Storage Area

Where Yahoo! WH Can improve?

1. The support team sucks. I hate strong words, but they suck. I operate from Bangalore and every time I make a call a support staff will say that “I may not be correct person to answer”. One of the prime reasons of selecting Yahoo! in place is to get a professional response. Here Yahoo has to improve a lot and recruit people who are genuine, know the technology on which they support, speak accent neutral English and ready to help.

2. The mail is integrated with existing Yahoo! Mail. The L&F is that of old Yahoo! and they do not provide any customization ability to change.

3. You do not have any control over certain Yahoo! APIs. Even some of the images are linked to some websites at Yahoo! No control over some pages even created by you as they put it into a Cache folder (automatically) and you can not open them. Support team is still working for over a month now.

4. The code after creating with Yahoo! site solutions, looks like spaghetti code and hence you just can not do anything properly

5. You do not have any control on the home page editing. You can not change the name itself!

6. Dynamic content such as Flash can not be added easily.

So, I decided to move to Joomla! and so far my experience has been smooth. Next post will be on Joomla!. Stay tuned . . .


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