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Yahoo Small Business India hosting - not ready yet

One of my relatives was looking for a hosting solution to host a website for a travel agency. Coincidently, I received a call from a Yahoo sales agent in bangalore about their special website hosting plan along with a domain name for Rs. 999 for the first year. So I signed up for the plan and uploaded the website pages, which were all static.

As I started using the service I discovered that Yahoo small business India is still not ready for anyone planning to do more than just upload static webpages. I could not configure custom IPs for nameservers and there is no imap access to email accounts. They do offer pop mail access for emails but the emails sent from a mail client are not stored in "sent mail" folder in yahoo account. When contacted, the customer care got back to me with a similar response on both occassions that it is not supported today and they do not have a timeframe for it.

For anyone looking for a hosting solution in India, I would suggest that you go with other service providers until the service from yahoo allows configurable dns settings and imap email solution. I am going to move my domain to another service provider at the end of current contract term.
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