Comments on: Yahoo Webhosting & wordpress. Phpmyadmin issues http://www.catechnologiesllc.com/yahoo-webhosting-wordpress-phpmyadmin-issues/ Web design, SEO, New Jersey SEO Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: S.E. http://www.catechnologiesllc.com/yahoo-webhosting-wordpress-phpmyadmin-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-30301 S.E. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:30:36 +0000 http://www.catechnologiesllc.com/?p=34#comment-30301 Yahoo is the most terrible webhost for wordpress in existence. (not to mention more expensive)Support is awful. They do however have a sitebuilding tool that is very effective from an seo standpoint and is fairly easy to use. I actually taught myself web design on it years ago. The problem was that when I got smarter and realized that host gator was where I needed to be, I discovered that my entire site was not transferrable because it had been built with that "great" tool I mentioned. I was devastated. I have recently made the mistake of giving them another try, hoping that they had improved over the years. I was wrong. Yahoo forces you to install your blog in another directory. They allow you to make your blog the home page, but still your site links are site.com/blog/page etc. I did a manual install of wordpress in my root directory, but still permalinks are screwy. the best i can get to work is index.php/%postname%/ Their so called plugin does nothing to help this. Yahoo should really wise up to the evolution of the internet and make the moves required to save and retain their business. People are using things like dreamweaver less and things like wordpress and joomla more often. Get with it yahoo!! Yahoo is the most terrible webhost for wordpress in existence. (not to mention more expensive)Support is awful. They do however have a sitebuilding tool that is very effective from an seo standpoint and is fairly easy to use. I actually taught myself web design on it years ago. The problem was that when I got smarter and realized that host gator was where I needed to be, I discovered that my entire site was not transferrable because it had been built with that “great” tool I mentioned. I was devastated. I have recently made the mistake of giving them another try, hoping that they had improved over the years. I was wrong. Yahoo forces you to install your blog in another directory. They allow you to make your blog the home page, but still your site links are site.com/blog/page etc. I did a manual install of wordpress in my root directory, but still permalinks are screwy. the best i can get to work is index.php/%postname%/ Their so called plugin does nothing to help this. Yahoo should really wise up to the evolution of the internet and make the moves required to save and retain their business. People are using things like dreamweaver less and things like wordpress and joomla more often. Get with it yahoo!!

]]> By: admin http://www.catechnologiesllc.com/yahoo-webhosting-wordpress-phpmyadmin-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-367 admin Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:17:41 +0000 http://www.catechnologiesllc.com/?p=34#comment-367 Yeah its ashame how many companies have employees that have no clue and can't help you. Host gator is def the way to go. Good luck and thanks for the post. I know how crazy it can get!!!! Yeah its ashame how many companies have employees that have no clue and can’t help you. Host gator is def the way to go. Good luck and thanks for the post. I know how crazy it can get!!!!

]]> By: Jenn http://www.catechnologiesllc.com/yahoo-webhosting-wordpress-phpmyadmin-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Jenn Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:44:55 +0000 http://www.catechnologiesllc.com/?p=34#comment-366 Yahoo! is the most nightmar-ish hosting out there - I've used a lot of hosts but Yahoo's by FAR the worst! 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!!!! Yahoo! is the most nightmar-ish hosting out there – I’ve used a lot of hosts but Yahoo’s by FAR the worst!

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!!!!

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