Well it’s still not entirely clear if yuku is in beta or not: the home page says nothing about the beta status but the yuku help wiki still has beta references and graphics and as anyone who’s using it can see, the software is still full of bugs and the promised features are not all present.

But they’ve revealed prices at last!
http://www.yuku.com/home/goldstory/

$72 for 12 months up to 50,000 page views per month, though how they’ll be working out what page views are with AJAX architecture is anyone’s guess. $72 for 12 months now instead of $54 on ezboard which means a one-third price increase!

Over 50,000 page views?

http://www.yuku.com/home/goldpricing/

“Advertising can be removed from community pages at a rate of $0.20 per 1,000 ads served. The minimum contribution is US $1.00.”

So if ezboard decide to litter the site with ads, that cash will go in a moment…

What about Yuku Supporter?

http://www.yuku.com/home/supporterstory/

“Supporters receive 100 MB of image hosting space. Non-Supporters receive only 30 MB”

Oh I’m sorry, didn’t users get offered 1TB of storage for free?

So, if your “enterprise-quality hosting and software” falls over or you’re fed up with paying someone else to have access to your account - as they do on Yuku - then try another option.

If you go to DreamHost and enter the promo code EZSAVE50, you’ll even get $50 off the first year’s hosting price of $119.40 (you pay $69.40 if you use the promo code) and that includes domain name, e-mail, 500GB of storage (increases @2GB a week) and 5TB of bandwidth, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, CGI, “real” web statistics, one-click installs of blogging, message board and other software, etc.

It’s a no-brainer…