Yahoo Web Hosting review #128 by keeper of stores (storekeeper@g...)


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Yahoo Web Hosting
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale , CA 94089
US
☎ Phone 1-866-781-9246

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Customer review #128
2.5/10
keeper of stores ( storekeeper@g... )
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The reason why I rated this the lowest possible, is because of their Terms of services located at

"9.2 Content Ownership

Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content You place on Your Service. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on Your Service, You grant Yahoo and its successors and assigns, the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license under Your copyrights and other intellectual property rights, if any, in all material and content displayed in Your website to use, distribute, display, reproduce, and create derivative works from such material in any and all media and display in any manner and on any Yahoo property the results of search queries and comparisons conducted on Yahoo, including, without limitation, searches conducted on Yahoo Shopping and the Service. You also grant Yahoo the right to maintain such content on Yahoo's servers during the term of these Terms and to authorize the downloading and printing of such material, or any portion thereof, by end-users for their personal use . "

It generally means that they have all the rights to do whatever they please with your website content, even selling it.

Robbing my content, and even binding me legally to it through their ToS is what I call the worst kind of host ever. I suggest to never host with them, unless you have nothing interesting to place on your website. Perhaps then it is somewhat safe to use them as host.

After I found that www.ixwebhosting.com is really the best around in terms of service and quality ToS. My only problem has been that I couldn't afford them, but I am going to host a few websites of friends at subdomains at a very low cost, so that I can afford the hosting package :)

If anyone finds a better quality host that offers more than ixwebhosting, and is very reliable, then do mail me, I am always interested ;)

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