| | | | | Blogging options, including WordPress, and |
| Yahoo Small Business: | | | | Movable Type |
| | | | | Guestbooks, PayPaI payment, phpBB bulletin |
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| services that enable you to establish and grow | | | | 24-hour toll-free phone support |
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| domain name registration, business email, hosting | | | | |
| for your business web site, e-commerce, and | | | | Four points to consider when choosing a web |
| tools to market your business online. | | | | hosting service: |
| | | | | Reliability and uptimeHosting uptime refers to the |
| What does Yahoo! Web Hosting include? | | | | percentage of time the host is accessible via the |
| ► Free, easy-to-use tools to build your web | | | | internet. It is very important your service be |
| site | | | | uptime (functioning and available for use). It |
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| | | | | you don't know how much space you need for |
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| Yahoo Small Business: | | | | unlimited disk space, which allows you to build as |
| | | | | many web pages as you want. |
| Free domain name | | | | BandwidthBandwidth (or data transfer) refers to |
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| Unlimited email storage | | | | visitors. Web hosts define bandwidth as the total |
| Easy-to-use design tools (Online site building | | | | amount of data access from your server over a |
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| more | | | | |