The Yahoo! definition of Unlimited ★
This is really interesting. This is the reason I feel using the word “unlimited” isn’t correct when it really isn’t that. Apart from this Yahoo even places restrictions on PHP upload sizes, so you cannot use a PHP upload script to upload files larger than 16MB. Now you may consider this normal because that’s the default value in the php.ini file but Yahoo! does not let you use .htaccess and neither does it let you upload your own php.ini to make changes that suit you.
Really bad practices, fooling customers is the main aim here. Many people think since Yahoo is well recognized it’s flaws are not unique and present in all other web hosting services. Thankfully we have other shared hosting providers that have not let Yahoo! monopolize the web hosting market.
The reason for that clause is simply to prevent people from running, say, a piracy site using Yahoo! Web Hosting. That is, you wouldn’t know that if you don’t read Yahoo! blogs a lot.
Anyway, I find it a little hard to believe you can’t change the php.ini file, or the .htaccess file. When they give FTP access, all one needs to do is replace the file. And generally, the upload limit (default) on most other hosts is way less - around 1-2 MB via PHP scripts.
Well, you find it a little hard to believe because you have not tried uploading 10MP shots on Wordpress hosted on Yahoo! It gives you an error caused because of the PHP upload limit.
Yahoo prevents changing the php.ini file, you can try it yourself. The .htaccess has very limited usage on Yahoo servers. I used Yahoo hosting for my family site but switched a month later. Thankfully they refunded the money, because I was on their initially-free-for-3-months period.