YeahHost has 5 shared web hosting plans. YH1, the most affordable plan, costs only RM199 yearly while YH5, the priciest is only RM399 annually. These prices are very competitive compared to most other web hosting companies in Malaysia but let’s not conclude too soon first whether the plans are good or not based on just the prices alone. What’s interesting though is that YeahHost has plans to cater for both the Windows and Linux platforms. The prices remain the same for the 5 plans that they have but certain features differ according to their respective platforms.
YeahHost’s hosting plans are tempting, for they offer free domain names for all plans as well as an unlimited number of email accounts. YeahHost claims that their YH5 plan is the most value-for-money as for an annual fee of RM399, you’d get 500GB of web space or storage, along with 5,000GB of monthly data transfer.
YeahHost’s Windows Web Hosting Plans
There are 5 plans altogether and it’s easy to remember what you are entitled for. If it’s plan YH1, you’d get 100GB of web space/storage and 1,000GB of monthly data transfer. If it’s plan YH2, you’d get 200GB of web space/storage and 1,000GB of monthly data transfer, and so on until plan YH5. Prices start from RM199 per year and there is an extra RM50 for each plan. In short, RM50 per year buys you an extra 100GB or web space/storage and 1,000GB of monthly bandwidth! This way, you decide how much you need and you’ll know how much you have to pay.
All hosting plans come with the following:
- Unlimited number of email and FTP accounts
- Free domain names
- Unlimited sub-domains and domain aliases
- Optional online website builders
- MS SQL & MySQL Databases
- DNS Management
- Website Panel Control Panel
Why do we like YeahHost?
Online Website Builder
YeahHost’s online website builder, which contains over 490 templates, allows you to build a professional-looking template in a span of minutes. One who has no knowledge on web design would be able to create a website in 5 easy steps of just pointing and clicking. Thus, this is great for new bloggers and website owners.
30 Days Money Back Guarantee
YeahHost also offers a 30 days money back guarantee just like other web hosting providers do, so you don’t have to worry of being stuck with a web host that doesn’t deliver satisfactory services for you can just terminate the subscription and get a refund of your money. I assume that the fees paid for the domain is not refundable, just as the norm for other web host providers.
Related Web Hosting Services
Besides web hosting, YeahHost also provides a range of other services such as email hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers and SSL certificates management. For all these services, YeahHost provides technical support around the clock and promises fast account activation, unmatched server reliability and 99.99% server uptime, among others.
Why do we dislike YeahHost?
I am however slightly skeptical of YeahHost for a couple of reasons. I didn’t manage to find any information on the company from their website. I would prefer to know their years of experience and a little bit more of their background. I tried looking for the corporate clients who have hosted with them too but didn’t find any. There were only testimonials from individual customers but I prefer some bigger names; that would increase my confidence of hosting with them. YeahHost is a relatively new web hosting company in Malaysia.
Better Web Hosting Companies
If I were to choose a web hosting company from Malaysia, I would go for either Exabytes or ServerFreak, because from our own experiences, we think these are the more reliable companies in Malaysia.
Exabytes has been providing web hosting services since 2001 and they have won awards as early as in 2002 when they had just started out. They boast of having Carlsberg Education Fund, Celebrity Fitness, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Nuffnang Sdn Bhd and Kenny Sia under their belt. They also offer a 100 days money back guarantee, showing their confidence of delivering satisfaction to customers.
ServerFreak is also another of my favorite web hosting provider as they have 7 years of experience and counting. They might not have as many corporate clients as Exabytes but from the testimonials on their website, the service sounds satisfactory enough. If not, there is always a 30-day money back guarantee.
For me, I will avoid Exabytes and ServerFreak at all cost, they’re suck recently. Yeahhost and hostgator are my choice! they’re the best!
I have never heard of Yeahhost before but I like Exabytes. They are very popular in Malaysia and can see their ads in the newspaper… my colleague has his blog hosted by Exabytes I think. He said the web hosting company has great technical support and has even helped him to setup his WordPress blog.
Haha…Exabytes is having great promotion next month, heard tht it might go up to 90%..Oh gosh
Charles,
That’s great news. I am sure our readers will be waiting eagerly for the great promotion from Exabytes! 90%… I am sure that will be a good deal!
Jasmine I doubt you know anything about yeahhost, we are using their service for more than 3 years, they’re much better than exabytes.
After switching to yeahhost, I need least support in all times. This is the most important part on top of good support, my 2 cents.
Larger name? lol
I like yeahhost email service most. ^^ TQ.
This is only an email hosting company. Without 24 live support it been pissing me off for the whole night because i am not able to do anything on it when their server goes down. Can’t finish work for my client means i don’t get paid on time. Going to ask my client to change the hosting service. I have no idea why everyone say they got good support. Either the comment is paid comment or this host is a total bogus, 3 hour+ down …. if i were to run an ecommerce site would have try to sue their ass off.
Yeahhost is good compared to other local hosting providers, I use their phone support for urgent matters, they always deliver excellent jobs, I just need to sit back and get the problem solved magically. Hope this tip help. I guess many people feel good for the same reason, their servers give me less problem, overall I’m happy with their service and support, very reliable and highly recommended.
i have signup with Yeahhost Malaysia. Their live support is very effective and can really solve the problem. Unlike other hosting company who always have standard reply to make thing more worst. Company background is not important to me (hehe as i’m not going to blind date with Yeahhost) as long as my website will not DOWN and the services is good. Besides that, company can hire someone else to wrote them an attractive company background which sound good but bad in taste.
Usually web host that provide bigger bandwidth and space with cheap price basically always have problem with cpu overload that may cause your site got suspended later.
ServerFreak told me that their hosting package is more expensive because they do not practice overselling which if one server should only capable for 20 user with 10 gb bandwidth and 2 gb. So, if they got another customer they do not put them on the same server above. So they do not oversell.
So usually website with bigger bandwidth and space package know that their users will not use all the entire package, because they may experienced cpu overload, so they oversell to another customer the unused resources, this later may cause server down and cpu overload or downtime on your site. Bigger bandwidth package may seem attractive but later you will realize you won’t be able to use the bandwidth and space to the max as you may experience CPU overload.
I don’t know if YeahHost practice overselling, but i have both experienced with ServerFreak and YeahHost, and I will prefer ServerFreak as before i transfer my blog to YeahHost i never experiencing Account Suspension, just a month with YeahHost my account got suspended 2 times. What I hosted at ServerFreak is similar as at YeahHost.
I transfer my hosting from ServerFreak to YeahHost because i think i need bigger bandwidth as my 20GB bandwidth keep exceeding. and YH1 package seem attractive rm199 for 50GB space and 100GB but ServerFreak RM180 only for 2GB Space and 50GB bandwidth . After all I regret of transferred my hosting to YeahHost!
Hi Roy,
Thank you so much for sharing with us your hosting experience with both ServerFreak and YeahHost. So, now you are hosting with ServerFreak, right? Can their disk space and bandwidth cope with what your website needs? Do you need bigger bandwidth? – Or you are actually paying more for extra bandwidth?
Hope to hear from you soon. Sharing is caring.
Thanks again.
2gb and 20000 monthly transfer is not enough if I hosted 3 of my blogs into it, so i just placed one blog, now i am just like start over as I changed my domain name. Well, i am not full time blogger, just love experimenting, so i don’t care much if i lost visitors or else. Last time in one month i have to top up like 6GB but just 3 month before my hosting package expired.
I just have one question to ServerFreak but I am not going to ask them, sound silly
, on how they handle account that use high CPU, because i remembered before, as i noticed my CPU Quota reach its limits (it showed at my Cpanel), my account statistic at Cpanel show, suspended for 7 times BUT it just like no notification about that from ServerFreak and my blogs was up and running.
That is why at Yeahhost, i didn’t expect my account will get suspend if my CPU Quota reach its limit because at ServerFreak it never happened.
Yeahhost has confirmed to give me 50% money back next week as i exceeded 30 days money back guaranteed, though i have to pay for my domain (RM40) as they offered free domain in their hosting package, so it is no longer 50% maybe 30%. Sound like a big lost but it’s okay.
Now I am experimenting a free webhost to point my domain at Yeahhost, heliohost.org . Just give it a try because I can’t park or use addon domain at ServerFreak as these feature are not in the package.
Maybe have to wait to cash my online earning then upgrade my hosting at ServerFreak.
Hi Roy,
Thank you for sharing your hosting experience with ServerFreak and YeahHost.
It is great to know that YeahHost will still give you 50% money back. It is actually quite normal for them to charge you for the domain name… so overall maybe you will get about 30% of your money back. I think this is still OK.
I have not personally tried Heliohost.org before, so I have no idea how good this free web host is. Perhaps they are OK for non-critical websites… we just have to give it a try then we will know. Please share with us your hosting experience with them.
Thanks.
hi roy
I questioned yeahhost and asked them to read your post just out of my curiousity to know more. I’m their reseller for years and have more than 20 domains with them, I know them quite well and happy by far, so your post sound interesting to me.
If not mistaken, you forgot to mention that you use your subdomain as link and proxy to illegal contents, and there is where the overloading came from (100% cpu?). You didn’t solve the problem after they unsuspended your account, that’s why you get your account suspended for second time. I’m a bit curious serverfreak suspended your account for 7 times but your blogs still up and running, that sound like a technical issue for me.
For me, yeahhost still the best compared to many others that I ever use.
Tell me how to solve the proxy problem if the proxy is hosted at appspot.com. i used google engine code to host the script, i just redirect the domain to my subdomain, so i think all the proxy is run on google hosting, which is appapot.com, because the script itself can be access two ways, prockxy.appspot.com and my subdomain, so i sont have any idea why i took yeahhost bandwidth. and i still used the pproxy at server freak and no problem regarding cpu, coz it hosted at appspot.
owh don’t get me wrong, Tell me how to solve the proxy problem if the proxy was hosted at appspot.com. i used google application engine to host the script (appspot.com), i just redirect the my proxy address to my subdomain, so i think all the proxy script is run and execute at google hosting, which is appspot.com., if the proxy coz the problem why they didnt tell me, as in my opinion supposed the cpu should overloaded or bandwidth usage count at my account in google appspot, not yeahhost. After all that proxy don’t have a lot of users.
Because the proxy itself can be access two ways, prockxy.appspot.com and my subdomain, so i don’t have any idea why it cost on cpu. and well i also redirect the proxy went i was at server freak. i don’t get notification about server freak suspended , i just doubt there is cpu quota at my cpanel (serverfreak) and most of the time it reached 100% and so my site was all up and fine.
hi roy,
I think most of the hosting companies in Malaysia do not allow hosting of proxy to illegal contents because it is violating policy and law, good to know that serverfreak is an exception.
Quite shock but interesting to know that serverfreak allow you to do that even with 100% cpu, thanks for the info.
i hosted my proxy script at google application hosting site, http://appspot.com, i point my
subdomain (when my domain at yeahhost) nameserver to GOOGLE NAMESERVER ghs.google.com,
not hosted the script at yeahhost server or server freak either, just redirect,
i hope u know the meaning of REDIRECT, TQ
i knew most shared hosting.didn’t allowed proxy site.
my problem at yeahhost is just i used cron job, that may caused the cpu overloaded.
BUT seem they thought i hosted proxy at their shared hosting which is NO and NEVER. That’s so unprofessional.
hi roy,
Actually most of the web hosts do not allow illegal contents regardless to where you host your proxy and contents.
It is similar to someone selling illegal DVD online, even if he keep his DVD at offline store and deliver them by post (not by download through website), it is still illegal. In that case, he need to find a web host that allow him to do that like serverfreak.
1) i alredy changing the ADVANCE DNS ZONE EDITOR for my subdomain to google DNS SERVER (ghs.google.com) because my PROXY is HOSTED at APPSPOT.com (u know similar to blogspot but appspot use to hosted apps like my proxy apps).
What ever it is the rules is dont hosted the script at YEAHHOST SERVER OR SERVER FREAK EITHER and I”M NOT.
BTW they only reason they told me why they suspended me was “CPU OVERLOADED” was and not proxy or anything and I kept solved my problem on my blog which use cron job and not finding the right solution.
That make me thinking if i cannot use the cron job so why should i on YEAHHOST, which at SERVER FREAK i don’t have any suspended account problem.
If i delete the nameserver, my account still having CPU OVERLOADED because the proxy is not the matter because as i don’t hosted it at YEAHHOST. That’s why I said it so unproffesional. Not telling the customer the exact problem that may coz cpu overload.
If they told me MAYBE i solved during the 1st time they suspended me as I dont need my proxy which can be access here: http://prockxy.appspot.com and HOSTED at appspot.com also can be access procxy.mydomain.com just to show off that my proxy has own domain, i don’t need it actually.
SO my conclusion as customer is:
1) They are not better than SERVER FREAK,
2) they are overselling (probably) ,
3 they not telling u the exact reason why they suspended ur account, just a hint which coz u think the problem is on another matters. This probably show how unprofessional they are.
4) late reply also part of this webhosting problem.
for other customer, i would suggest u to buy webhost at server freak, even a bit expensive and slightly little space and bandwidth but they are professional, answering question and problem super fast when ur in trouble on ur blog. There is another reason why other webhost sell their webhost at cheaper price with big space and big bandwidth coz they probably overselling and may cost ur blog in trouble in later time. #justsaying
hi roy,
They suspended your account for 2 reasons, illegal contents and CPU overload issue, you missed something, no wonder you complaint so hard. It doesn’t make to me to twist it as an overselling issue.
Serverfreak is definitely better for you because they do nothing on your illegal sites and cpu overloading issue. It’s all about professionalism, and we got it.
Thank you for your time and information, I will try to avoid serverfreak from now, bye!
haha okay, no one ever blog or review about yeahhost before, and i found this site review then I read the comments above Goh, WangLaimeng and I didn’t believe what william comment. After all , that’s all my fault, too bad.
hi roy,
William’s IP was blocked by firewall accidentally, not server issue lol. I think he already can access after they removed the IP from firewall’s block list for him.
Sometimes using dynamic IP to access Internet, or access in public area using shared Internet connection may cause you connected to Internet with problematic IP.
I understand William is in urgent but this kind of issue normally web host need time to check lah, haha.
Hi.
Its 2013 now, hopefully more of you have try yeah host and can give me more advise.
I want to use them because their price is fair. I have bought domain names from uk and it was massively cheap compare to malay.
Anyway, I am doing a website for a small restaurant. So I wont need much, just to put some photos and an email address really. Would yeahhost be reliable enough for that. Also does anyone know if they are accredited by a governing body (such as ICANN)?
Please someone reply me, really need to the help.
Jes