I recently went to change my main site to WordPress and came across permalinks issues as well… but that was the least of my worries with Yahoo!

A few years ago they allowed another company to transfer my domain without my consent, then when I called to complain about it the dolts at Yahoo! just kept saying that couldn’t happen – even though it was clear that it did happen. So at this point I had to pay another company for the domain because Yahoo! idiots couldn’t figure out how to transfer the domain back to them – because they have a package deal and no one knew how to get the domain back into the package! So now I have to pay for the domain name somewhere else – AND pay Yahoo! for the domain and the hosting. I would have cancelled long ago only I have several users using Yahoo! mail and they scream every time I try to move it.

And that’s not the worst… last month one of my main sites for my business (hosted through Yahoo!) went down – I was on the phone with them for two weeks and I got transferred to every department under the sun but no one could tell me what happened. I finally asked for a supervisor and he couldn’t even help (no one there has a clue about anything – not even the supervisors!!!!) Well I finally got one guy on the phone who would tell the truth, he said that the site got hacked into but Yahoo! was too embarassed to admit it and that they wouldn’t turn it back on! At this point I transferred it to HostGator – within an hour HostGator wrote that they found where someone hacked into it, deleted the bad file, and all was well!

The only sad thing was that I lost a lot of revenue when my site was down and it disappeared from Google for a few weeks.

Argh – I’ve had other problems as well – if anyone gets anything from this post – NEVER EVER EVER get Yahoo! webhosting!!!!