Web Hosting

Web Hosting Comparison Chart
Feature Descriptions


Starter Standard Professional
Price
Monthly web hosting fee
One-time setup fee Sign Up
$11.95
$8.96/1st 2 mos.1
$25 WAIVED1 Sign Up
$19.95
$14.96/1st 2 mos.1
$25 WAIVED1 Sign Up
$39.95
$29.96/1st 2 mos.1
$25 WAIVED1
No annual contract required — and you can upgrade to a higher plan anytime

Starter
Standard
Professional

Detailed Technical Comparison

Features
Disk space
Number of web pages supported* 5GB
5–25,000
web pages 10GB
5–50,000+
web pages 20GB
5–100,000+
web pages
Data transfer
Number of visitors supported/mo.* 200GB
10,000–500,000 visitors/mo. 400GB
10,000–1 million visitors/mo. 500GB
10,000–1.2 million visitors/mo.
Business email addresses
(like info@widgetdesigns.com) 200 500 1000
Free domain name
(like www.widgetdesigns.com) Yes Yes Yes
Easy tools to create a professional site
Learn more Yes Yes Yes
Support for third-party design tools (like FrontPage and Dreamweaver)** Yes Yes Yes
Advanced scripting and database tools (like PHP, Perl, and MySQL) Yes Yes Yes
24-hour toll-free phone support Yes Yes Yes
User-friendly control panel Yes Yes Yes
Web site enhancements (like guestbooks and visitor counters) Yes Yes Yes
Exclusive online marketing discounts Yes Yes Yes

Starter
Standard
Professional

Domain Name
Free domain name or use of an existing name Yes Yes Yes
Web site subdomains 100 200 500
Domain locking *** Yes Yes Yes
Domain (DNS) control Yes Yes Yes
Design and Scripting Tools
PHP version 4.3.11 and support for hundreds of PHP functions Yes Yes Yes
Perl version 5.8.7 and support for the standard library plus 12 additional modules Yes Yes Yes
MySQL 4.1.12, with virtually unlimited databases **** Yes Yes Yes
Multiuser FTP accounts 500 500 500
Support for third-party design tools (like FrontPage 2000/2002 and Dreamweaver)** Yes Yes Yes
Support for multimedia tools (like Flash, Shockwave, audio, and video) Yes Yes Yes
Easy tools to create a professional site
Learn more Yes Yes Yes
Reliability
Consistently delivered 99.9% uptime ***** Yes Yes Yes
Same reliable infrastructure as rest of the Yahoo! network Yes Yes Yes
Automatic site snapshot every 4 hours Yes Yes Yes
Local and remote backup of your web site Yes Yes Yes
Redundant links to Internet backbones Yes Yes Yes
FreeBSD (Unix) operating system Yes Yes Yes
Apache servers Yes Yes Yes
Security
Password-protected user accounts 200 500 1000
Shared SSL certificates and encryption Yes Yes Yes
Customer Support
24-hour toll-free phone support Yes Yes Yes
Online help center and email support Yes Yes Yes
Getting Started guides and video tutorials Yes Yes Yes
Blog Hosting
Integrated installation of WordPress, Movable Type, and Yahoo! 360° Yes Yes Yes
Email
Business email addresses 200 500 1,000
Storage per email account Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Email attachment size 20MB 20MB 20MB
POP and SMTP email access Yes Yes Yes
Web-based email access Yes Yes Yes
SpamGuard Plus Yes Yes Yes
Norton AntiVirus Yes Yes Yes
Catch-all default mailbox Yes Yes Yes
Management of multiple email accounts from one inbox Yes Yes Yes
Site Statistics
Detailed site statistics Yes Yes Yes
Number of visitors by web page
Yes Yes Yes
Search engines used to find your site
Yes Yes Yes
Keywords used to find your site
Yes Yes Yes
Web addresses from which your visitors came
Yes Yes Yes
Downloadable access logs plus free log analyzer tool Yes Yes Yes
Web Site Enhancements
Standard surveys and email forms Yes Yes Yes
Guestbooks Yes Yes Yes
Gallery 2 photo-album organizer Yes Yes Yes
phpBB bulletin board Yes Yes Yes
PHP-Nuke content management system Yes Yes Yes
Ysurvey advanced survey tool Yes Yes Yes
WebCalendar Yes Yes Yes
PayPal buttons Yes Yes Yes
Yahoo! Maps, site search, news headlines, stock quotes, and more Yes Yes Yes
Exclusive Marketing Discounts
Search engine sponsored search
$100 credit: Yahoo! Search Marketing Yes Yes Yes
$50 credit: Google AdWords Yes Yes Yes
Search engine submission and optimization
Automatic submission to Yahoo! Search Yes Yes Yes
Automatic submission to Google Yes Yes Yes
3-month free trial: Submitnet Yes Yes Yes
Local online business search
30% off Yahoo! Local Enhanced Listings Yes Yes Yes
Email marketing
3-month free trial: Campaigner by GOT Yes Yes Yes
Online advertisement tracking
45-day free trial + 33% off monthly subscription: KeywordMax Yes Yes Yes
Customer leads
100 free leads: infoUSA mailing lists Yes Yes Yes