Yahoo, Six Apart Tie Up For Small Business Blogging

Yahoo continues to integrate blogging in a variety of ways. The latest — subscribers of Yahoo Web Hosting, designed for small businesses, will have access to Movable Type under a new agreement between Six Apart and Yahoo. At the same time, Six Apart transfers some of its hosting load by making Yahoo the preferred small business provider. The mystifying part — to me, at least: Six Apart says MT works 100 percent faster through Yahoo than on its own servers.
Update: Anil Dash clears up the mystery: Yahoo is using the FastCGI environment, which allows MT to run faster than on other hosts; Six Apart doesn’t offer MT hosting on its own servers. Dash also gave me a little color on the revenue angle: “We have our relationship around encouraging people to set up MT on Yahoo, as well as their right to distribute MT, and we’ll be offering upsell packages to those Yahoo/MT users in the future.”

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