Review of the Yahoo Web Hosting Control Panel

Yahoo web hosting provides its own unique control panel. As we mentioned in an earlier article, the most common control panel for most web hosts in the well known and respected cPanel. While cPanel offers everything you will need in your control panel, Yahoo Small Business created their own simplified control panel.

Logging into your Yahoo small business account, you will see that their web hosting account is much more simpler than cPanel or other various forms of control panels. The first thing you’ll notice is the simple layout. There 7 tabs which allow you to carry out the most common tasks you may need in your web hosting. The first tab, the “home” tab, allows you to view your daily site traffic. This is handy as it allows you to view how many people each day, week, or month are visiting your website. On the bottom of the screen, there is also a keyword option where you type in a search engine keyword and Yahoo will tell you how well you are ranking for it. I suppose this can be handy for most non-technological users.

The second tab, the “email” tab, allows you to set up all of your email accounts. As of the time of this writing, Yahoo small business webhosting allows you to have upto 1000 email accounts.  The next tab, “create and update” gives you multiple options you may need to use for your web hosting. For example, on this tab, you can use their file management tools to upload files to your site, or easily install a prebuilt site from a yahoo template. These can be somewhat useful, though I would prefer using filezilla or some other FTP to manage the files on the server.

The “management” tab allows you to use other tools on your webhosting account. It also provides valuable info for your ftp. This is the info you would use to connect your site to your FTP, like FileZilla. You can also change your yahoo small business service plan on this page.

The promote tab gives you useful information about ranking on search engines. Its always good to follow their advice as it will help people find your website more easily by searching on a search engine, such as Bing or Google.  The “help” tab is also very useful and can provide a lot of helpful information if you are not sure how to do a certain task in your web hosting control panel. The “index” tab provides more of a glossary type documentation on how to do pretty much any web hosting related task.

That’s pretty much the Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting control panel in a nutshell. Its very simplified and great for doing many simple things in your web hosting control panel. Though its fairly straight forward and easy to understand, I do wish Yahoo would switch to the preferred cPanel control panel that is a little better.