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By Bradley Charbonneau | Filed under About
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I like to use a real estate analogy to explain website hosting. I lease a “building” from a big, well-known hosting provider. I sub-lease apartments (websites). I also live in the building and I am the building manager, the interior designer, the plumber, the doorman, and the janitor. If the plumbing goes out in apartment 42 (a website), I’ll instantly get an email about it and can fix it in a snap because I know exactly where the main water valve is in the basement. I know what’s going on and how to get it fixed. If I can’t get it fixed, I have a direct line to the building owner. That’s about it.
If you’re hosted at e.g. Yahoo, you’ll be going to them for any questions, but if you come to me while you’re hosted with Yahoo, you’ll need to give me the keys to your apartment, I’ll need to search around the basement, billing you for the time, and find the main water valve. Maybe it’s in the exact same spot as it is in our building, great, easy. Maybe it’s not and it’s going to take me an extra hour to fix it. See the comments below for more about the “big guys” as hosting companies.
The hosting building is going to have the same 99.9% uptime as all of the big guys–because it is one of the big guys. No, I don’t have a 24/7 help desk 800 number. But how often are things truly the fault of the host? Well, statistically, 0.01% of the time! The usual culprit is your ISP (SBC, Comcast, Earthlink, etc.) and your Internet connection. The other culprit is your own computer or network. In the three years I’ve been with this host, they’ve had two little glitches and they were fixed before I could even email them about it.
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:50 pm
While trying to make a sophisticated form work (example), SBC said they didn’t support the technology behind it. Long story short, it was the form or SBC Hosting. My client chose the form. Here’s what SBC Hosting said:
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Dear Yahoo! Customer,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Web Hosting.
We’re sorry, the ionCube loader you are mentioning is not currently supported through Yahoo! Web Hosting and we do not have an estimated date as to when or if it will be available. However, we’ll pass your comments on to our Development team for further consideration.
We are always looking for ways to make Yahoo! Web Hosting more useful to our users, and we will be sure to keep your question in mind as we continue to make improvements to our service.
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They’re not a “bad” hosting company, they just may not run all of the bells and whistles a sophisticated site needs.
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Here’s a perfect example of why I prefer to host with my host.
Got this email from a big name host. Basically, this email is telling me that I don’t have as much control as I’d like. In real estate terms, I can turn off the main water valve, but I can’t turn off the valve to just the kitchen.
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Thank you for your email. As stated in the previous email, CHMOD is not supported by our servers. You can not set permissions for an individual file. The only way to set permissions on XO servers is through the CGI Permissions, which is directory-based.
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May 12th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Here are more reasons not to go with Yahoo hosting for WordPress. Here’s a specific one.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
To use wordpress is difficult on yahoo hosting.
May 4th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Yes yahoo hosting doesnt support wordpress.