I just met a friend at a bookstore. I am going there to buy some VB 2005 and Ruby on Rails related books. This friend told me he found the first problem in customizing his blog, i.e. did some CSS edit with Yahoo! web hosting. (He was using Yahoo! web hosting for nearly six months). After he changed his blog’s header weight, the update only take effect after 24 hours. He asked why he needs to wait for so long to view the changes he did on his wordpress blog? His CSS script errors or Yahoo! servers’ problem? I can’t answer it because I’m not with him when he was doing the CSS edit.

However, I experienced something I do not like Yahoo! web hosting package. I once install and customize a WordPress blog in Yahoo!’s server for one of my clients. Though I got the option to make my client’s blog as the home page, Yahoo! by default will force that blog to a subfolder. To be more specific, my client’s blog home page address will become, i.e. www.example.com/blog/. Moreover, all the pages are within the subfolder, put an example, the “About” page, would appear as www.example.com/blog/about.

Assume my client want to host another blog in the same Yahoo! hosting package by using Movable Type, another blogging software available in Yahoo!. After you done the Movable Type installation, it would appear as the following URL, i.e. www.example.com/blog1/. I feel the methodology behind this setting is: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Just take it as granted.

I even read some sources on the web, there are issue pertaining to permalink when you host your blog with Yahoo! For all sort of issues here, I hope Yahoo! aware of this and take action towards in integrating WordPress and Movable Type with its hosting package. Try to improve its blogging package and thus attract more customers.