Yahoo! Small Business

You may be reading this and thinking, “wait a second, Yahoo! is a search engine, not a web host!” First of all, the first part of your thought is correct — Yahoo is one of the world’s largest search engines. They also do email, news, Flickr and endless other services. But what you probably don’t know is that Yahoo! is also a world-class web host with specific features and functionality tailored for small business owners and operators.

One clear advantage that Yahoo! has above the competition is that they are able to leverage their huge infrastructure (featuring many datacenters, gobs of bandwidth and literally tens of thousands of servers) to provide a hosting experience that few hosts can claim to rival. With Yahoo!’s hosting service, your site will be operating on the same infrastructure that the rest of Yahoo!’s services use, meaning that you’ll experience great server speed, bandwidth and uptime.

While those features alone set Yahoo! hosting apart from the crowd, they’d only be really impressive to a small number of high-end clients if the price tag wasn’t right. Here’s where you may be surprised — the price of Yahoo!’s hosting services is on par with that you’ll find from most other hosts, many of which don’t hold a candle to Yahoo! in terms of infrastructure size and the ability to really know how to do good hosting since such a large portion of their business rides on their ability to be able to operate a solid infrastructure and deliver their products and services to their users as quickly and efficiently as possible. While all of the Top 10 hosts that we reviewed here on WebHostingCompanies are on par with Yahoo! in terms of uptime, bandwidth and server speed, Yahoo! is, in many aspects, the standard by which others are judged. (Also worth noting that any host that didn’t cut the mustard here certainly didn’t make it into our hosting directory, much less our Top 10 list.)

Another thing that is great about Yahoo!: peace of mind. Unlike many other small hosting companies, you can rest assured that Yahoo! isn’t going anywhere — they’re a multi-billion-dollar company with a major net presence in most parts of the world and a long and storied history of success in their pursuits and expansions. Most executives, business owners and investors understand this, and you may have a better chance of pitching Yahoo! to them as a potential hosting partner than you might with a smaller company.

In the end, Yahoo! is definitely worth considering on your quest for the right host for your needs. Check them out now!