As of today, You can get MovableType on Yahoo. And I'll let you in on a little secret. Even though it says "Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting you don't need to be a small business to use it. Individuals and Big Business can use it equally well. It's MT for anyone.Given that blog hosting services seem to be a dime a dozen, why would you bother considering Yahoo Here are a few reasons.
Yahoo scales. Yahoo can handle it when a blog gets slashdotted. No sweat. You probably already know this, but Y! Search Blog and the Y! Developer Network both use MT (of course, I set both of those up, so I might be a bit biased). Yahoo! servers run FastCGI, which is an order of magnitude faster than typical hosting environments. It might have been possible to rig this up yourself with a lot of work in the past, but now it's just there.
As a customer of Yahoo! Web Hosting, I can attest to how fast it is and how well it is run overall. It has lots of features, is very affordable, and comes with plenty of bandwidth and disk space. My site isn't really public, it's more for my personal use, but I do often receive comments from friends about how fast it is. Adding MT is a great enhancement!
No need to install MT. Really. No tarballs. No chmodding. Hallelujah. Upgrades are easy too. Lots of pre-installed plugins: stylecatcher, spamlookup, nofollow, wysiwyg, Yahoo! search, BigPAPI. Plus there's plugins for all your favorite Yahoo services, from Flickr to del.icio.us. I've talked with the Yahoo! Web Hosting folks quite a bit about blog hosting over the past few months (and done some testing too). And you know what They get it. All along the way, they've been asking what the typical pain points are for bloggers. They've thought a lot about what we can do that other hosting providers have trouble
Also not so nice that it prohibits making available things which interrupt limit the functionality of any computer hardware, software or telecommunications equipment, since that appears to prohibit linking to mytop and a variety of similar tools which let authorised people interfere with normal operation to do things like kill queries or block access to sites via router tools.
I think that this mix is a great idea. It willwork great for many people. I have started reviewing MT the past couple of months, and the biggest problem I have had with reccomending it the difficulty with installation, and the lack of support for adding the standard plug ins... with yahoo behind this, all of that should be taken care of.. good for yahoo, very good for Six Aprt / MT, and really really good for bloggers who want to use the professional Movable Type.
