Yahoo! now offering "unlimited" web hosting

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Yahoo! now offering "unlimited" web hosting

by Simon Kerbel Feb 6th 2008

Loosen those belts and belly up to the bar, because Yahoo! Web Hosting has gone all-you-can-eat. Beginning today, Yahoo! is offering unlimited web hosting for all of its small business customers.

What does unlimited mean? In this case:

Unlimited disk space
Unlimited data transfer
Unlimited email storage
1,000 email accounts

Along with the above, Yahoo! Web Hosting offers a wealth of website design tools, a free domain name, and automatic submission of your site to top search engines.

At $11.95 a month, you've probably spent more at Sizzler's buffet bar. Who can resist popcorn shrimp?

All in all, an interesting development by Yahoo! sure to tighten the web hosting race.

Tags: web hosting, WebHosting, Yahoo!

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

rodents said 4:01PM on 2-06-2008

Oh my god. That buffet is no more than like... .1 miles away from my house.. What a crappy picture of the sign!

Matthew said 6:30PM on 2-06-2008

When did the word "unlimited" come to mean "limited"? This trend is getting annoying. Read Yahoo's definition of unlimited: "In other words, you can add as much content as you want, but maybe not all at once."

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/unlimited/

Peter said 7:15PM on 2-06-2008

That doesn't mean your storage space is limited, just the rate at which you can use it.
Besides, if you think you're going to store 4 TB for $12/month and get any reasonable level of performance you're fooling yourself.
99.999% of the users are going to be very happy with this. It's just the people who are trying to "work" the system who will be affected.

Mysterius said 1:00AM on 2-07-2008

Yahoo seems to have a penchant to hype "unlimited"...

I guess it sounds catchier than "indefinite". (Though that isn't quite accurate, either; there do seem to be set limits, but the limits just aren't widely publicized.)

rodents said 7:41PM on 2-06-2008

and oh, they generally do not have popcorn shrimp at crazy buffet, they do have a Mongolian barbecue that time to time has shrimp.. tofu as well

Chuck said 8:44PM on 2-06-2008

"In other words, you can add as much content as you want, but maybe not all at once."

This sounds like a disclaimer from www.aaa-star-web-hosting-planet-monster.com, written by a high school student.

AlJ said 9:36PM on 2-10-2008

I've found that shared hosting from Hostmonster or Hostgator has been sufficient for my needs. Reseller hosting typically costs twice as much as the Yahoo deal but you generally get what you pay for.

http://www.asp-hosting-info.com/asp-web-hosts.html

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