Yahoo! Small Business

Yahoo! Small Business System Status


On this page you can review known system issues that may impact your Small Business account. Please check back regularly for the latest status, or choose a real-time updates option for automated notification of any changes. If you are experiencing a problem not listed below, please contact us.

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Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may have difficulties accessing their websites

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may have difficulties accessing their websites.

Our engineers are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Some Yahoo! Small Business accounts may show pending status.

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Certain new Yahoo! Web Hosting, Domains, or Business Email orders placed between July 10th, 2010 to July 16th, 2010  may still show pending status in the control panel.

We are aware of this issue and are working toward a resolution as quickly as possible.  Further updates will be provided as more information becomes available

Some Yahoo! Small Business WordPress Blogs may perform slowly

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Some Yahoo! Web Hosting Customers may encounter slowness or latency in performance in their WordPress Blog installations.

Our engineers are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Customers cannot connect to their Web Hosting site using their default FTP login and password

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Some Yahoo! Customers may be unable to log into their Web Hosting FTP address using their default FTP account. For more information on your default FTP account please visit our online help center.

Customers who encounter this issue will receive this error from their FTP client:

Error 530 (bad username or password)

We are aware of this issue and are working to resolve it quickly. In the interim customers can create a secondary FTP access account through the Web Hosting Control Panel > Manage > Password Manager screen. For more information on creating secondary FTP access accounts, please visit our online help center.

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers in South East Asia may not be able to access their website

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers in South East Asia  may not be able to access their web sites.

We are aware of this and working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Web Hosting system maintenance on April 27

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Please note that we will conduct routine maintenance for Yahoo! Web Hosting on April 27, 2010, beginning at approximately 7 p.m. PT. We expect this maintenance to last approximately 9 hours.

During this time, your visitors will be able to view your site, but you may be unable to access your Web Hosting Control Panel or update your pages. Some features on your published site (such as blog comments) may also be temporarily disabled.

Some Yahoo! customers may be unable to log into their web site via FTP

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may encounter errors when attempting to log into their web site’s FTP server to upload files to their web sites.

Unsuccessful attempts to log into your FTP server will cause an “Error 530″ message to appear in your FTP client program.

We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Temporary web site URLs are loading slowly

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may encounter slowness or time out errors when viewing their sites from the temporary URL displayed in the home tab of their Web Hosting Control Panel.

More information regarding the temporary web site URL can be found here.

Customers affected by this issue are those customers who have recently (within 72 hours) registered a new domain name when they created a new Yahoo! Small Business account and / or have not set their domain name servers (DNS) to the Yahoo! domain name servers listed here.

Customers whose Domain name servers (DNS) are set to the Yahoo! name servers are not impacted by this issue.

We are aware of this issue and are working to resolve it in a timely manner.

Unable to view web sites/stores

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may be experiencing issues viewing their Yahoo!-hosted web sites or stores.

We are aware of this issue and are currently working to resolve it as quickly as possible.

Unable to publish using Yahoo! SiteBuilder

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

We have learned that some Yahoo! Small Business customers located in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe may be unable to publish their web sites using Yahoo! SiteBuilder.

Our engineers are currently investigating on this issue.


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