If you had a website or email with Yahoo Small Business, you are probably a Turbify customer now, whether you picked it or not. And if you are shopping for cheap hosting, Turbify’s $0.99 plans have likely caught your eye.
This review covers both readers. It walks through every Turbify product and its price, what the contract says happens after the first year, how refunds and cancellations really work, and who should stay, who should buy, and who should look elsewhere.
Quick answer: Turbify is the old Yahoo Small Business, now owned by Infinite Computer Solutions. It sells cPanel hosting, WordPress and WooCommerce plans, an AI site builder, Business Mail and hosted stores. First-year prices are low, but renewal prices are not published and the contract is strict. Good for existing customers who value phone support; most new buyers can do better.
Key takeaways
- Hosting starts at $0.99 a month for the first year, and the cheapest price sits on the biggest plan.
- Turbify never prints a renewal price. The contract renews you “at the then-current rates”.
- To stop an annual plan renewing, you must cancel at least 32 days before it ends.
- Refunds cover new hosting orders only, need a phone call, and keep the domain fee.
- Support is 24/7 by phone and chat, and Trustpilot ratings are better than the brand’s reputation suggests.
| What we looked at | Our take |
|---|---|
| Price (first year) | Very low: $0.99 to $3.99 a month for hosting |
| Price (after year one) | Unknown until renewal, crossed-out prices run $7.99 to $17.99 |
| Contract terms | Strict: auto-renewal, early cancel deadline, phone-only refunds |
| Features | Solid basics: cPanel, NVMe storage, free domain, SSL, 25 to 100 mailboxes |
| Support | Strong point: 24/7 phone and live chat |
| Best for | Existing Yahoo Small Business customers and Yahoo Store merchants |
| Skip it if | You want a clear long-term price or plan to build on WordPress from scratch |
| Verdict | A fair choice if you are already there, a hard sell if you are not |
Is Turbify the same as Yahoo Small Business?
Yes. Turbify is the new name for the former Yahoo Small Business, the unit that sold web hosting, domains, business email and online stores under the Yahoo brand. Infinite Computer Solutions bought that portfolio from Verizon in 2022 and relaunched it as Turbify. Existing accounts, sites and mailboxes moved across with it.
The roots go back a long way. Yahoo bought Viaweb, one of the first online store builders, in 1998 and turned it into Yahoo Store. The small business unit was briefly renamed Aabaco Small Business in 2015, went back to Yahoo Small Business in 2017 after Verizon bought Yahoo, and finally became Turbify.
Two things from that history still matter today. The company you sign the contract with is Aabaco Small Business, LLC, the same legal entity from the Yahoo years. And Business Mail is still “powered by Yahoo”, which means it also runs under Yahoo’s own terms.
It also explains the mixed reputation. Many Turbify customers never chose Turbify. They signed up with Yahoo years ago, and a good share of the angry reviews online come from people surprised by a new brand, a new bill or a price change.
What does Turbify sell?
Turbify sells six things from one account: domains, shared web hosting with a free AI site builder, WordPress hosting, WooCommerce hosting, email (its own Yahoo-powered Business Mail or Google Workspace) and Turbify Stores, the old Yahoo Store platform. It also offers website design services and local listing tools.
The detail that trips people up: each product has its own term and renewal date. Cancelling your hosting does not cancel the domain or the mailboxes. If you leave, you need to close each one.
How much does Turbify cost?
Turbify web hosting costs $0.99 to $3.99 a month for the first year, billed annually. WordPress and WooCommerce plans cost $0.99 or $3.99. Business Mail starts at $1.19 to $3.19 a month depending on the mailbox count, and Turbify Stores start at $39.95 a month plus transaction fees. Renewal prices are not listed.
Here is each line in turn, with a screenshot of the live plan page.
Web hosting plans
These are classic shared hosting plans with cPanel, the control panel most hosts use, plus Turbify’s own toolkit and the AI Website Builder. Every plan includes a free domain for the first year (.com, .net or .us), free SSL and business mailboxes.
| Plan | First year, per month | Crossed-out price | NVMe storage | Bandwidth | Mail accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $2.99 | $7.99 | 100 GB | 100 GB | 25 |
| Advanced | $3.99 | $12.99 | 500 GB | 500 GB | 50 |
| Professional | $0.99 | $17.99 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 100 |
Yes, the top plan is the cheapest right now. That is a promotion, not a pricing logic, and it tells you something: Turbify expects to make its money at renewal. If you buy, Professional is the obvious pick for year one. Just know that its crossed-out price is the highest of the three.
What the cards do not say is how many websites each plan allows. Turbify also does not name its data center locations. Ask support both questions before you pay if either matters to you.
WordPress hosting plans
Turbify’s WordPress plans add automatic WordPress updates, a one-click installer, a WordPress toolkit and malware scanning. The page says the platform runs on Microsoft Azure infrastructure. The fine print under each price reads “Valid 1 term only”.
| Plan | First year, per month | Crossed-out price | NVMe storage | Mail accounts | Malware protection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $3.99 | $9.75 | 500 GB | 25 | Scan |
| Standard | $0.99 | $11.25 | Unlimited | 50 | Scan and repair |
WooCommerce hosting plans
The WooCommerce plans are the WordPress plans dressed for a shop. They swap in Imunify360 for DDoS protection, LiteSpeed caching and an AI-based firewall. WooCommerce itself is free, so you pay no platform transaction fee, only your payment processor’s.
| Plan | First year, per month | Crossed-out price | NVMe storage | Security extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $3.99 | $9.75 | 500 GB | Malware scan, AI firewall, Imunify360 |
| Professional | $0.99 | $11.25 | Unlimited | Malware scan and repair, AI firewall, Imunify360 |
The AI Website Builder
The AI Website Builder is free with every web hosting plan. You describe your business in a sentence, it drafts a site with copy, layout and images in about a minute, and you edit by chatting (“make the headline warmer”). There is no separate builder plan on the site right now.
It is a decent way for a non-technical owner to get a simple site live fast. The catch is in the contract: Turbify’s terms say you cannot run pages generated by its services on other servers without its written permission. Your words and photos are yours, but the builder site itself does not travel. If you think you might move later, build on WordPress instead.
Turbify Stores
Turbify Stores is the descendant of Yahoo Store, and it is priced like a different product. Plans are monthly, add a transaction fee on every sale, and the Terms of Service also mention a one-time setup fee.
| Plan | Price per month | Transaction fee | Notable extras |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $39.95 | 1.5% | Unlimited products, UPS shipping, PayPal and card processing |
| Standard | $99.95 | 1% | Inventory and accounting integration, gift certificates, API access |
| Professional | $299.95 | 0.75% | Same as Standard with the lowest fee |
For a merchant who has run a Yahoo Store for years, with its catalog, order history and RTML templates, staying can make sense. For a brand-new shop, those prices and fees are hard to justify when WooCommerce or a mainstream store builder costs less.
Business Mail and Google Workspace
Business Mail gives you an address at your own domain with 1 TB of storage per mailbox and 30 aliases, using Yahoo Mail’s webmail and apps. The plan cards show “as low as” prices for 1, 5 or 10 mailboxes on a 12-month term.
| Option | Shown price, per month | Storage | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Mail, 1 mailbox | As low as $3.19 | 1 TB | Calendar, contacts and tasks included |
| Business Mail, 5 mailboxes | As low as $1.59 | 1 TB each | Works with any email app |
| Business Mail, 10 mailboxes | As low as $1.19 | 1 TB each | 20+ mailboxes by phone only |
| Google Workspace Business Starter | $8.40 per user | 30 GB | Gmail, Meet, Docs, 30-day trial |
| Google Workspace Business Standard | $16.80 per user | 2 TB | Recordings, shared drives |
| Google Workspace Business Plus | $26.40 per user | 5 TB | Vault and advanced security |
The page never says whether the Business Mail price is per mailbox or for the whole pack, so check the total in the cart. Also remember that hosting plans already include 25 to 100 mailboxes, so many sites will not need a separate mail plan at all. If email is your main need, our best email hosting guide compares cheaper and more flexible options.
Domains
Turbify sells over 300 domain extensions through Tucows, a large accredited registrar. A .com is $7.99 for the first year, and the starred offers only apply to the first year of a two-year registration.
The renewal side is less tidy. In our domain search, a new .com showed a renewal of $19.99 a year, while the scrolling price strip on the same site lists $11.99. Check the cart line before you pay, because a domain is the one thing you will renew for many years.
What does Turbify cost after the first year?
Nobody outside Turbify can tell you for sure. The plan pages never show a renewal price, and the Terms of Service say your plan renews automatically “at the then-current rates and fees”, and that prices can change at renewal without notice. The real number appears on your bill, roughly a month before the term ends.
The crossed-out “was” prices are the only public hint. If a renewal lands near them, the jump looks like this. Treat it as an illustration, not a quote.
| Plan | First year total | One year at the crossed-out price |
|---|---|---|
| Web Hosting Essentials | $35.88 | $95.88 |
| Web Hosting Advanced | $47.88 | $155.88 |
| Web Hosting Professional | $11.88 | $215.88 |
| WordPress Starter | $47.88 | $117.00 |
| WordPress Standard | $11.88 | $135.00 |
That is the whole story of Turbify’s pricing in one table. The $0.99 Professional plan could cost more than 18 times as much in year two. This is the most common complaint in Turbify reviews, and it is the same trap we describe in our guide to the hidden costs of website hosting.
The contract terms that matter
We read the full Terms of Service. These are the rules that affect your wallet:
- Auto-renewal is on by default. Plans renew for the same length as the first term until you cancel.
- You are billed early. Annual and multi-year plans are charged at least 31 days before the term ends.
- The cancel deadline comes even earlier. Annual plans must be cancelled at least 32 days before the term ends, or the next term is already yours.
- Promotions end on their own. The terms say that to avoid paying full price, you must cancel before the discount period ends. An early termination fee “may apply”.
- No refunds by default. Outside the satisfaction guarantee below, payments are not refunded.
- Cancelled means deleted. After cancellation, Turbify can permanently delete your files, email and sites.
The fix is simple, if a little dull: when you buy, put a reminder in your calendar six weeks before the renewal date. That leaves time to call, ask for the renewal price and decide.
Can you get a refund from Turbify?
Sometimes. Turbify’s 30-day satisfaction guarantee covers new Web Hosting and WordPress Hosting orders. You must call 1-833-689-8585 within 30 days of the order and ask for the refund when you cancel. You get the hosting fee back, minus the domain registration charge, which is never refunded.
A few more limits are worth knowing. Add-ons such as extra mailboxes or private registration are excluded. If your hosting fee was smaller than the domain charge, which is possible on a $0.99 plan, you get nothing back. Website Design customers cannot get a refund in their first six months. And refunds only go back to the card on file.
The WooCommerce plan cards also list the 30-day guarantee, though the terms only name Web Hosting and WordPress Hosting. If you buy WooCommerce hosting, confirm on the phone that the guarantee applies to your order.
Turbify features: what is real and what is marketing
Strip away the slogans and Turbify’s hosting is a standard cPanel shared plan with NVMe storage, free SSL, backup and restore tools, caching and malware scanning on the WordPress side. That is a solid, ordinary package. Several of the bigger marketing claims are less consistent than the plan cards.
What you can count on, because it is on the plan cards:
- cPanel, so any tutorial for a cPanel host works here too.
- NVMe storage on every hosting plan, from 100 GB to unlimited.
- A free domain for the first year on .com, .net and .us.
- Free SSL that renews automatically.
- 25, 50 or 100 business mailboxes included with web hosting.
- Team members, so a developer or staff member can get their own login.
- One-click WordPress installs, automatic updates and malware scanning on WordPress plans.
And the claims to read with care:
- Uptime. The hosting page promises a 99.99% uptime SLA, but a FAQ answer on the same page says Turbify guarantees 99.9%. We could not find a published SLA document with credits.
- Size. The hosting page says “12,000+ small businesses” choose Turbify; the AI builder page says “2.4M small businesses served”. Both may be true in some sense, but they are not the same claim.
- Speed. Turbify cites “20+ edge locations” but does not name its data centers, and “unlimited” storage on a shared plan always comes with a fair-use policy.
None of this makes Turbify bad hosting. It makes it hosting where you should trust the plan card over the banner.
What is Turbify support like?
Support is the best part of Turbify. It is available 24/7 by phone (1-833-689-8646) and live chat, with a help center for self-service. On Trustpilot, Turbify holds a 4.3 TrustScore from about 2,000 reviews, most of them recent, and the company replies to nearly all negative reviews.
The praise is consistent: patient agents, short waits and problems fixed on the first call. The complaints are just as consistent: surprise renewal charges, longer holds at busy times, and Business Mail issues that take several calls. Roughly one review in five is a single star.
That split matches what the contract tells you. The people are helpful. The billing model is what makes customers angry. Note also that the refund line and the general support line are different numbers, which is a small but telling detail.
The Yahoo link and other lock-ins
Turbify is easy to join and harder to leave than most hosts. Three clauses do most of the work: builder sites cannot run elsewhere, Business Mail is tied to a Yahoo ID, and your account content can be deleted once you cancel. Domains and WordPress sites move normally.
- Yahoo ID. Business Mail runs under Yahoo’s terms. If Yahoo ends the Yahoo ID linked to your mail, Turbify’s terms say your agreement and access to its other services can end too.
- Domains. Turbify is a reseller for Tucows. A newly registered domain can move to another registrar after 60 days, and the registration charge stays non-refundable.
- Parked domains. If a domain points at Turbify but shows no site of yours, Turbify may run ads on it until you ask it to stop.
Turbify pros and cons
What we like
- Very low first-year prices on every hosting plan
- 24/7 phone and chat support with good customer ratings
- cPanel and NVMe storage, so it works like a normal host
- Free domain, SSL and up to 100 mailboxes bundled with hosting
- AI Website Builder included at no extra cost
- The natural home for long-time Yahoo Store merchants
What to watch out for
- No published renewal prices, and the crossed-out prices are steep
- Annual plans must be cancelled 32 days before they end
- Refunds by phone only, for new hosting orders, minus the domain fee
- Builder sites cannot be moved to another host
- Business Mail depends on a Yahoo ID
- Stores are expensive and charge a fee on every sale
- Data center locations and site limits are not published
Who should use Turbify, and who should skip it?
Turbify suits existing Yahoo Small Business customers whose site works and who like calling a person for help, and long-running Yahoo Store merchants. It is a weaker choice for new buyers who want a predictable bill, plan to grow on WordPress, or might move hosts later.
Turbify is a good fit if you:
- Already run a site, mailbox or store from the Yahoo days and it does what you need
- Want 24/7 phone support more than you want the lowest bill
- Need a simple brochure site fast and like the idea of an AI builder
- Run a Yahoo Store catalog that would be painful to rebuild
Skip Turbify if you:
- Compare hosts on total cost over two or three years, not the first-year price
- Want to know your renewal price before you buy
- Plan to build or grow a WordPress or WooCommerce site
- Need an online store on a budget
- Want only email, which is cheaper elsewhere
Better Turbify alternatives
For most new buyers, a host that prints its renewal price up front is the safer bet. Hostinger and DreamHost both show the renewal rate right on the plan card, both offer a website builder plus WordPress, and both back their plans with a money-back guarantee.
Hostinger: the best value for most sites
Hostinger’s shared plans show the price you pay today and the renewal rate on every card. During its current sale, Premium is $1.99 a month on a 48-month term ($12.99 normally listed) and renews at $10.99 a month, with 3 websites, a free domain for a year, weekly backups and a CDN. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
The trade-off is a longer upfront term for the best price, and support by chat rather than phone. Our full Hostinger review covers speed, support and every plan in detail.
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DreamHost: clear yearly pricing and monthly options
DreamHost’s Web Hosting Launch plan is $2.89 a month for the first year on yearly billing, and the card says it auto-renews at $10.99 a month. It includes 25 websites, 25 GB of NVMe storage, unmetered bandwidth and an AI site builder, and DreamHost also sells month-to-month plans if you hate long contracts.
For email or an online store
If you only need email, a dedicated provider usually beats a hosting bundle on price and features; see our best email hosting picks. If you want to sell online, WooCommerce on a good host is far cheaper than Turbify Stores, and our ecommerce hosting guide shows where to run it. Small business owners comparing everything at once can start with our best hosting for small business list.
How to move away from Turbify
Moving off Turbify is a normal migration with one twist: you have to close each product separately and keep the old account alive until the new setup works. Do it in this order and nothing goes offline.
- Pick the new host and email provider first. Sign up before you touch anything at Turbify.
- Back up everything. Download your site files and databases from cPanel, export store products, and copy old mail to the new mailbox over IMAP.
- Rebuild or migrate the site. WordPress moves with a migration plugin or a manual copy. Builder sites need rebuilding on the new host.
- Point the domain. Change the DNS or name servers to the new host and update the MX records for email. Wait until the site and mail work there.
- Transfer the domain if you want. Unlock it in your Turbify account, get the transfer code and start the transfer at the new registrar.
- Cancel each Turbify product. Cancel at turbify.com/services or by phone (833-689-8646), at least 32 days before an annual term ends, and ask for written confirmation.
Final verdict: is Turbify worth it?
Turbify is honest hosting wrapped in an aggressive pricing model. The servers, cPanel, NVMe storage and 24/7 phone support are all fine. What holds it back is everything around them: no renewal price on the page, an early cancel deadline, phone-only refunds and lock-ins inherited from the Yahoo years.
If you are already a Turbify customer and your site works, there is no urgent reason to leave. Call, ask for your renewal price, and decide with the number in front of you. If you are a new buyer, pick a host that shows you the year-two price before you pay. You can still check Turbify’s current plans and its Terms of Service yourself before deciding.
Turbify FAQ
Is Turbify legit?
Yes. Turbify is a real company owned by Infinite Computer Solutions, which bought the former Yahoo Small Business portfolio from Verizon. Your contract is with Aabaco Small Business, LLC, the same legal entity from the Yahoo era. The complaints online are mostly about billing and renewals, not about scams.
Is Turbify good for WordPress?
It works. The WordPress plans include one-click installs, automatic updates, cPanel, NVMe storage and malware scanning. But WordPress moves between hosts easily, so it pays to choose a host on long-term price and support rather than a first-year promotion, and Turbify does not publish its renewal prices.
Is the Turbify AI Website Builder free?
Yes, as long as you have a Turbify web hosting plan. Turbify says the builder is currently included free with every web hosting plan, with no extra AI credits to track. The catch is that sites made with it cannot be moved to another host under Turbify’s terms.
Does Turbify Business Mail still use Yahoo?
Yes. Business Mail is “powered by Yahoo” and runs on Yahoo Mail’s webmail and apps. Signing up means you also accept Yahoo’s terms and privacy policy, and your mailboxes are tied to a Yahoo ID. Google Workspace is the alternative inside Turbify if you would rather avoid that.
How do I cancel Turbify?
Log in at turbify.com/services and cancel each product, or call 833-689-8646. For annual and multi-year plans, cancel at least 32 days before the term ends, otherwise the renewal is already locked in. Back up your site and email first, since Turbify can delete them after cancellation.
Why did my Turbify bill go up?
Most likely your first-term discount ended. Turbify’s plans renew automatically at the then-current rate, which can be several times the promotional price you first paid. Call support to ask which plan you are on, whether a cheaper plan fits, and what the next renewal will cost.
Can I keep my domain if I leave Turbify?
Yes. Unlock the domain in your account, request the transfer code and start the transfer at your new registrar. A newly registered domain has to wait 60 days before it can move. Keep the Turbify domain renewed until the transfer completes so it never lapses.
