Can't Find Site at Yahoo Web Hosting Because It Is a Starter Web Page

This morning, I could not find a Yahoo Web Hosting Site. Where did it go? I could not seem to figure it out.

I was in the Yahoo Domain Control Panel when I noticed something. I noticed that the site was a so-called starter web page.

What is a starter web page? At Yahoo it is a web page that runs off of the domain interface rather than the web hosting interface. In other words, you don't really need a hosting account in order to have a starter web page.

Here's how I found the starter web page:

1. I went to the Yahoo Domain Control Panel
2. Once in the Yahoo Domain Control Panel, I noticed some links on the left-hand side of the page. Each link was a domain name. I clicked on the domain I was looking for.
3. Next, I scrolled down a bit. There it was! There's a link called Edit Starter Web Page that comes after all the other links you need in order to work with your domain name.
4. I clicked on Edit Starter Web Page and it allows you to edit, in a primitive way, your web page. It is much like editing a review on Amazon, or any other website, where you have limited editing capability.

Earlier, I tried finding the domain under the Web Hosting Control Panel at Yahoo, but it was not there. So, apparently, you can put up a quick webpage yourself by hosting your domain at Yahoo. Later, you can extend the capability of this page by buying Yahoo Web Hosting in addition to already having registered your domain at Yahoo. This appears to be the basic idea.

While a nice little feature, it is confusing for a web developer like myself who is looking for the page. Doing a whois lookup on the page reveals Yahoo DNS servers. So, where is the page?

I figured out where the starter web page was by looking around and getting lucky.

Ed Abbott

Finding the Yahoo Control Panel

Can't believe how hard it is for me to find the Yahoo control panel! Each time I try to google the Yahoo control panel, I'm sent to a page that invites me to sign up for Yahoo Web Hosting as a brand new customer. Not what I want.

Here are the steps that make it possible for me to successfully find the Yahoo control panel:

1. Google yahoo small business sign in
2. In the search results, I choose the first link that appears. In my particular case, the first link that appears is https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/servicecheck.php.
3. A Yahoo web page with the word control panel embedded as a link in the page appears many times. Apparently this page is known as the Business Control Panel. It has a few control panels embedded in it.
4. Choose the control panel that is appropriate for you. For example, click on Web Hosting Control Panel if this is the control panel you are looking for.
5. Once you've found the web hosting control panel, you can flip over to the domain control panel by clicking on the tab on the horizontal navigation bar. The horizontal bar is found at the top of the page and the tab is on the right side of the bar.
6. Flip back and forth between web hosting and domain by clicking on the tabs of the same name in the upper right-hand-corner.

OK. I'm there. It only took a few minutes to find the control panels at Yahoo. Now that I've written it down, in the future, it will only take me a few seconds.

OK. I've refined this even further. I've figured out the URL of the Yahoo Business Control Panel:.

https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/services/

I'm always trying to find an easier way.

Ed Abbott