trouble with yahoo small business?

squaredeye · 2006-11-08 22:54:10

Has anyone had any trouble with yahoo small business?
A client is using the service and I am stumbling all over it.

I am having trouble mailing anything for instance,
I am assuming it has to do with the smtp settings for the server.

I also notice an error in the PHP version noted here

Any ideas.

Matthew

Walker · 2006-11-08 23:53:52

Hey Matt!

I used this once. It’s a bitch. They’ve got it very tricked out (essentially, they turned off everything that might one day cause them problems).

Read this and this

squaredeye · 2006-11-09 01:53:26

Walker,
Were you able to get anything working or should I get my client to move servers?

FYI, the second article link didn’t work?

Argh, this is a bitch indeed!

soulship · 2006-11-09 03:23:20

Matt wrote:

should I get my client to move servers?

Hey Matt, I would run if I were in your shoes. I had to deal with this in the spring and I gave up. They need to move to a better server enviroment It’s not worth the extra work and hair pulling to get anything running on Yahoo Business other than basic CGI scripts. I would move them to TXD/Dreamhost etc. I was never able to get anything working right.

Jamie

squaredeye · 2006-11-09 03:30:00

Jame, Jam, Ja, J :)

I’m hightailin it :)
I’ve already asked them to move. I hate when clients do this. I need to learn to ask harder questions up front.
Thanks for the advice.

MattHEW :)

Walker · 2006-11-09 16:15:48

Yo Matt. Jamie’s absolutely right, you need to get them to move.

I was installing a custom application on that client’s server that I mentioned, so I ended up just rewriting some portions of the application. Textpattern, nope, it would hate that environment, I’m guessing.

Walker · 2006-11-09 16:16:35

Oh, sorry that second link didn’t work…it was something else from the YAHOO! small business hosting FAQ about how they handle sendmail email on the server.

squaredeye · 2006-11-09 16:35:01

Walker, Jamie, Thank you.
If you pray or have special powers, please use them to help me convince these folks to move.

Matthew

soulship · 2006-11-10 12:19:40

What I would consider is simply setting up one of those $19 for the first year dreamhost specials and set up the site under test-theirURL.com or theirURL.dreamhosted.com (that maps easily without doing anything) and get the site up and running and when you’re done, just turn the account over to the client. I have done this a few times. Once the client sees the value and functionality improvement I have not had a problem convincing them to stay where the site was working smoothly. Just a thought. You have to realize, most people don’t want to know about the technical crap, they just want it to work.

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squaredeye · 2006-11-10 13:57:34

Jamie,
That’s an interesting idea. I might need to think about that with another host though. Dreamhost has been disappointing lately. I love so much about them, but I’ve had way too much downtime in the last 6 months.

You’ve got a great point about just setting a client up there, however, when the client purchases a hosting service on their own, before they hire you, it can be another story… Like a woman I worked with who recently bought a service from register.com which didn’t even supply a mysql db for something ridiculous like 24.95/mo!

:)

Matthew

hcgtv · 2006-11-10 14:13:32

I have Yahoo mail, I’m always getting informative spam from them, grow your business, etc.

When I first heard of their hosting I did my research, I found the same things everybody else has, too restrictive for my tastes. I can understand them in a way, make it harder to screw things up, make it easier to support.

One option to think about is GoDaddy, when you register a domain with them, you get free hosting:

5GB disk space
250GB bandwidth
Linux
PHP
MySQL (10 databases)

I have a few clients sitting up there waiting for when they are ready to go with their sites. I just have placeholder pages but I can also use it to stage Textpattern or whatever else on it. If they decide to stay there, they can just upgrade their hosting plan to git rid of the top ad.

Here’s the phpinfo() for one of the sites.

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hakjoon · 2006-11-10 16:14:48

One thing of note about GoDaddy is that their server setups are very inconsistent. What works on some servers won’t work on others. For example some of their machines do not have mod_rewrite available while others do. And they will not turn it on if you ask for it.

I also think they are switching a lot of their boxes over to IIS, but that was just infered on one of those “IIS has surpassed Apache” artilces.

Last edited by hakjoon (2006-11-10 16:15:49)

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