Yahoo Small Business Websites – Permanent Links Problem
Yahoo Company is providing very cheap web hosting at 2000 Rs in India . In Advertisement they are saying , there is no limitation for Bandwidth , Email Id , Memory Etc .. . I have also bought the small business plan for my site . I faced some problems
- Email ID limited to 100
- Sub Domains are limited to 1000
- Storage Space is only 5GB [ Based on Request , This may be increased ! ]
- We can not create permanent links for our post when we use blogging softwares like Word press
- No Access for .htaccess file [ So we can't install Drupal in Yahoo small business ]
- No SSH [ Secure Shell ] Service
I could not find any alternate solution for SSH service and .htaccess file . but i found one solution for permanent link which is useful for search engine optimisation . Lets get in to the problem first . When you use word press software , By default each and every post will be represented by numbered link.
For Example : http://www.rajarajan.in/?p=10
http://www.pradeepkumar.org/?p=362
These links are not indexed properly while search engines crawl your site. You need to assign proper name for every posts . you can follow the following standard procedure for assigning name for your post
Naming Post Links [Click Image To Enlarge
- Day and name http://www.openpeta.com/2009/05/25/sample-post/
- Month and name http://www.openpeta.com/2009/05/sample-post/
- Numeric http://www.openpeta.com/archives/123
- Custom Structure
Here the problem is coming , when you change default to other in word press , The links will not work because of .htaccess problem with Yahoo small Business. But you can do one alternate thing to assign the permanent link to your posts. Just add index.php after the main url or link.
Custom Permanent Links [Click Image To Enlarge
- Day and name http://www.openpeta.com/index.php/2009/05/25/sample-post/
- Month and name http://www.openpeta.com/index.php/2009/05/sample-post/
- Numeric http://www.openpeta.com/index.php/archives/123
- Custom Structure /index.php/%postname%/
Then all links will work properly , If you find some solutions to these problems , please post your solutions through comments of this page.
Is this website hosted on Yahoo small business?
Is there a way I can track the comments I make on WordPress? Like: I commented here. And I would like to be notified in the dashboard that the author of the post has commented right after my comment.
Regards.
Yes this website hosted on Yahoo small business, Some plug-ins may be available to send the comment reply info to the users , i have to find that one .. . [ But admin will receive new comment information via email notification ]
Is it possible to put ads on a website hosted through yahoo small business? If yes then where can I find the clause mentioning contractual implications?
Yes , it is . You can use CMS softwares like wordpress , drupal , Joomla with advertisement templates . . .
We are using yahoo india’s small business solution, for hosting our web site and mail.
While there have been no problems in hosting the web site – the email service has been terrible. We have had the situation of being unable to access our mails and even web mail access has not worked.
We keep getting the same error over and over again. I am seriously considering shifting my business elsewhere.
My previous experience in calling yahoo India has been that I can only get through to their sales team never to their support – this can mean ttwo things i.e too many support issues and not enough people or they just aren’t interested in support. Support is also limited to just office hours whereas a business continuity issue (such as a disruption in email services) should have 24×7 support. I hope someone at Yahoo is listening.
You are absolutely right Samir, Customer care is very worst in yahoo web hosting, for your email problem better you change your DNS records and get mail ids from gmail with your domain name . that is best ….