Yahoo coupon codes and promos - web hosting

Yahoo was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, 2 graduate students at Stanford in 1994. A little over a year later they raised their first venture capital money from Michael Moritz from Sequoia Capital. Just one year and seven days after that, they went public raising $33.8 million. During the height of the dot com boom, they moved into hosting by acquiring Geocities for an eye-popping $3.57 billion in pre-dot com crash stock. Hope the Geocities guys sold quick!

This officially made Yahoo a web host. At that time, you didn't need a yahoo promo code or coupon because it was free. In fact, it wasn't until 2001 that they finally started offering premium hosting. Finally, due to Geocities incredible inability to make a profit, it stopped accepting new registrations everywhere accept for Japan in 2009. It has been cited as an example of a company that despite incredible traffic, at one time it was the 5th most popular site on the web, simply could not turn a profit. You hear that Twitter?

However, despite Geocities' closing in the United States, fee based Yahoo web hosting is still going strong. That's because although Yahoo never really figured out how to make a profit with Geocities, they did figure out how to offer great, low cost hosting with a lot of features. Their integration with other Yahoo products means that they offer perhaps the most feature rich hosting on the web. If you are a beginner, they offer tons of tools to help you set up your site, attract visitors, and include tons of tools, some useful to almost everyone like a page hits counter and some useful to almost no one like podcast manager, free with even the cheapest package.

In addition to cheap Yahoo hosting, they also offer robust e-commerce packages so you can set up a Yahoo store and start selling products in just minutes. Even the most basic package allows you to sell up to 15 different products. You can also easily accept credit cards through them or integrate Paypal or Google Checkout into the site quickly and painlessly. Yahoo even claims the sites are search engine optimized and if anyone should know about that, it's them.

In my honest opinion, Yahoo is probably not a great choice for experienced webmasters who are planning on creating huge, complex sites that will really push the limits of shared hosting, but if you are beginner, you won't find a host that offers more easily integrated features than Yahoo.
As far as coupon codes go, Yahoo usually offers them on most of their major products. The mainstay and of course the core of their business is web hosting so Yahoo pretty much always has promo code or five available for that.

Yahoo also constantly releases coupons for its other hosting related products. They are usually either a discount of a certain percentage or an offer to get the product free with a purchase of one year of hosting or another popular product.

So if you are just starting out or an experienced marketer wanting to set up a quick and easy, yet feature rich site, Yahoo web hosting is a fine choice. If you are looking to set up an e-commerce site, but don't really have much money to spend and don't know the first thing about how to begin, your best bet is probably to grab a Yahoo hosting coupon and sign up.