I try not to write such posts, but the frustrations expressed by my clients who hosts on Yahoo! Small Business compels me to point out the obvious shortcomings of a popular host. This non-exhaustive list is in no particular order, it’s just the top 4 reasons why I would not recommend or host any on my sites on Yahoo!
One-Click-Install of Outdated Software
A client recently used the one click install feature to add WordPress to her site, within days it was hacked and she lost everything she had moved from another CMS (luckily she still had her backups). The problem was the defunct version of WordPress that Yahoo! installed; …

Al might think he “invented the internet“, but he sure failed to upgrade his WordPress inatall, which resulted in negative publicity for the best open CMS out there. His site was powered by version 2.0.4, which as Matt points out was released a good 16 months ago, and even beats the version I was running on my other site just a few weeks ago (with my own patch nonetheless). My excuse, I did not invent the …