A client recently used the one click install feature to add WP to her site within days it was hacked and she lost everything she had moved from another CMS (luckily she had backups). The problem was the defunct version of WP that Yahoo! installs. WP version 2.0.2 which beats. Yahoo! claim to be partners with WordPress org and provide search capabilities for that site yet the version they install on hundreds of user sites is full of holes and prone to malicious hijacks.
This is a very funny yet restrictive setup that Yahoo! Hosting has in place to screw users form using phpMail functions. For example the standard flair for any new WP site is a contact form. Yahoo! wont allow you to use one. The only situation it would work is if the from email ID entered in the Contact Form is from the. For example if you are setting up example com the only people who can use the contact form are those with a someone@example com email ID. Does that even make sense? Their reason is if you had access to send emails to and from your site you might use the privilege to spam everyone. Privilege to Spam? Yahoo! assume that its subscribers are spammers and treat them like one irrespective of if you really are one or not. While there are ways around this issue but it is not worth the time and effort.
Although this feature is for advanced users they don’t let users have access to it. This means you are not allowed to set up redirects and it you do manage to or set one up within the WP install, Yahoo! will delete the file and if you are the ‘unlucky types’ it might even kick you out of the system completely without the opportunity to restore/reverse to that portion of the site period.
I recently called Yahoo! on behalf of a client and was on hold a good 50+ minutes just to hear the guy on the other end tell me he will “get the engineers to look at the issue the next morning” and that “the issue will be resolved in 3 to 5 days”. I replied (in astonishment) “3 to 5 days?” and he replied very calmly. “that’s less than a week” (almost confirming that he actually knows something). Obviously Yahoo! Hosting thinks your site is not important and can wait a 5-day downtime. After all why bother rushing their engineer to look into petty matters when they could be spending it on keeping the.
“the issue will be resolved in 3 to 5 days” - now this is ridiculous. You know it’s funny how all the big names offer hosting services that are simply not that good. I wander what would be if at least one of them was offering a rock solid hosting. Probably they would kill all the competition. However something else applies. I guess. When you are such a big name it’s so easy to grow too fast. This means that you have to rapidly hire personnel that is not prepared well to handle such a load.
It’s far better to use a smaller company which has web hosting as their primary business and get response to all your tickets in 10-15 minutes not days.
Yahoo! also doesn’t allow access to the web server error logs which is a nuisance but not fatal. Indeed they treat clients as idiots. But their uptime is near perfection and their ability to catch email spammers is very strong. Our application runs well at Yahoo!(plugandplaywebmaster com) which makes website management and maintenace a breeze so one doesn’t have to use the Yahoo! tools. I am impressed with HostGator’s environment and their serious support team and would recommend HostGator for webhosting.
There is no one method to do it essentially you need to back your database your theme/template the plugins list then switch the DNS address with your current host to point to your new host.
On your new host install WordPress and add your theme and plugins create a new database and populate with the downloaded copy from your old site wait for the DNS to switch.
Yahoo’s webhosting is a complete nightmare. Paricularly if you have a store on their webhosting platform. They cram ~1000 sites on each server assign 4 or more IP addresses to your site that change frequently (dynamic IP addresses)and won’t allow you to set up real 301s while they generate multiple urs for your site. The result is that only your homepage will be ranked for just a few unimportant keywords. If you want our business to die a slow & painful death then go with Yahoo merchant solutions / web hosting.
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