Web hosting for small
businesses is among the many services offered by digital-media company
Yahoo. The company targets small businesses that need easy-to-use tools
to build and maintain an online presence. Yahoo offers different levels
of hosting packages to help your business quickly get its website
online. You can take advantage of 24-hour email and toll-free support if
you need help setting up your website.
Storage
and bandwidth for Yahoo Web hosting accounts varies depending on the
plan you purchase. The $3.74 per month basic plan offers 100GB of disk
space, the $5.99 per month advanced plan includes 500 GB and the $8.99
per month premier plan gives customers unlimited space. The basic plan
also includes up to 10 Web pages and 1TB of data transfer per month. The
advanced and premium plans offer unlimited pages and data transfer.
Rates are as of July 2012.
Email Features
Yahoo
Web hosting email services give you the ability to assign email
accounts to employees. The basic plan offers 250 email accounts. The
advanced plan includes 500 email accounts while the premium plans allows
you to assign up to 1,000 email accounts. Email storage is unlimited
and includes spam and anti-virus protection. Customers who use Microsoft
Outlook can use the email client to manage their Yahoo email.
A
useful feature for those with little to no technical knowledge is the
Yahoo site-design tool. All Web-hosting levels have access to this
online Web-design feature. It allows you to choose from a
business-related site template and customize it with colors and a choice
of page layouts; you can also add photo galleries, slideshows, video
and audio. As you personalize your site with the tool, you can also add
content as you go along. The site-design tool allows you to preview the
site before making it live.
Interactivity and Marketing
With
just a few clicks, Web-hosting customers who do not have any knowledge
of HTML or programming can add interactive elements to their Yahoo sites
such as surveys, maps with directions and social-media links. If you
have products to sell, you can easily add PayPal buttons. Nonprofits can
add PayPal "Donate" buttons. Users also have access to Google Gadget
mini applications and Widgetbox tools to add interactive widgets and
applications to their sites like countdowns, news feeds and weather
updates.
Programming, Database and Reporting
All
customers, regardless of plan, can monitor their site visitors with
traffic-reporting tools and access to the site’s raw log files that can
be used in third-party reporting software. If you are savvy in using the
scripting language PHP and can create MySQL databases, you may wish to
take advantage of the advanced and premium plans, which offer these
programming options for users. Yahoo gives customers who buy these plans
access to 1,000 FTP accounts to upload and manipulate files, and to the
PhpMyAdmin tool, which enables you to manage databases from a
user-friendly visual interface. Web-hosting accounts with these
programming options also support installation of the WordPress blogging
platform.
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