Yahoo! Web Hosting and WordPress Partner on Blogging

Updated on Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 at 1:09 pm

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Sunnyvale, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 21, 2005 - According to information posted on Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress.org blog, WordPress has added a new web host - Yahoo!

The post reads in part,

”We’ve been working with the Yahoo Small Business team to create a solution that gives professional bloggers exactly what they want from their hosting providers.

When we started, Yahoo asked “What would the perfect blog host do?” and their team has been really amazing in executing on a really kick-ass platform for serious bloggers. It took a little while, but slow cooking makes good eating. (Like WordPress 2.0!)

We think the hosting is good for all the baseline features you should expect - tons of storage, bandwidth, Yahoo reliability, etc. (You probably heard all about that in their Movable Type announcement last week.) However we think they’re worth featuring because of three key things:

With just a few clicks, Yahoo Web Hosting will install WordPress 2.0 complete with a few choice plugins and themes. Setup one blog or two dozen in seconds.
They will also upgrade your WordPress when a new stable release or update is available, meaning it is a zero-maintenance solution on par with WordPress.com.
Finally, every Yahoo Hosting customer gets a free Pro-Blogger Akismet license ($5/mo value) and Akismet is auto-enabled on new installations, meaning that spam is less of an issue on Yahoo WordPress blogs. (Much like their stellar email spam handling.)

Guy Yalif from Yahoo says, ”We believe that by adding WordPress’ blogging application to our leading web hosting product, we are providing a top notch, scalable, and reliable solution for less than $12 per month”.”

According to a Yahoo! public relations representative, ”Yahoo! is ‘tool agnostic’ and is committed to working with industry leaders to offer an affordable, scalable solution for the serious blogger. With today’s announcement, and last week’s announcement by Six Apart (makers of Movable Type), Yahoo! now offers the two most popular, recognized leaders in blogging solutions for high traffic blogs.”

Mr. Wullenweg’s original blog post can be found here: http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/.