I just recently noticed that Yahoo! has gone into the Cobalt RaQ business, with prices starting at $150/month (free setup) for a RaQ 3 with 40 GB of monthly bandwidth. More info is available at:

http://servers.yahoo.com

Anybody used them? I know they've done RaQ's before, but never at this price.

You want to be a little less vague there?

Yahoo is one of the oldest non-edu/gov sites on the net.

They have a very big(and not so bad) name within the internet community.

I don't have anything to do with them, don't get paid by them, just don't want to see an innocent company get bashed for no reason.

They also just recently contracted some of their searches out to Google.com. In my opinion Google is THE BEST search directory/engine there is.


I wouldn't mind announcing my servers were colocated with Yahoo, they have a pretty decent amount of bandwidth I'm sure. (Like I said, I don't, I'm still just a lowly virtual reseller).

Ok, their search engine is horrible, their link submission is absurd, and i am sure there are plenty of other people that feel the same way.

Originally posted by slade
You want to be a little less vague there?

Yahoo is one of the oldest non-edu/gov sites on the net.

They have a very big(and not so bad) name within the internet community.
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I wouldn't mind announcing my servers were colocated with Yahoo, they have a pretty decent amount of bandwidth I'm sure. (Like I said, I don't, I'm still just a lowly virtual reseller).


I have a Yahoo email account, and I am not impressed with the reliability of their servers. I have all but stopped using the account due to mail that is lost by the Yahoo servers (i.e., accepted by Yahoo's SMTP server, but never delivered to me). The Yahoo message boards are often dog-slow.

Yahoo uses akamai extensively for caching, so the bandwidth into the datacenter they lease is not as large as you might suspect.

Quite honestly, I am not all that impressed with Yahoo's capability to run servers.

Yahoo has been offering these since they purchased SimpleNet. SimpleNet is one of the first hosts I can recall that offered Raq servers.

I had a Raq from Simplenet back in late '98, early '99 and did not have any problems.

I had a virtual hosting account with SimpleNet several years ago and they were excellent all the way around.

Beware the "40 gig per month" at Yahoo! Servers though, that's for a 128k capped line.