The place for
Joomla! hosting
information. 

Joomla! is very popular and powerful Content Management System (CMS) which you can use to build websites, from very simple to very complicated. It can also be used to create powerful online application.

You can use it for:

• websites for non-profits, organizations, schools, churches or families
• company intranets and portals
• magazines and newspapers
• portals for communities

Once Joomla! is installed, it is easy for anyone, even without special computer knowledge, to update or add texts and images to the site. Over 3 thousands of extensions are avalable to be installed additionally, adding features to Joomla! powered website.

Before you enjoy the simplicity and flexibility of your own website powered by Joomla!, you have to find reliable and secure hosting company - and this is the goal of our site.

Joomla! is Open Source software - it was created by the team of passionate developers - so if you like free software please consider donating to the project.

If you want the answer to the above question, you are in the right place! All necessary information about web hosting companies providing Joomla! hosting are here.

First the minimum requirements for Joomla! host:

• PHP 4.2.x or above
• MySQL 3.23.x or above
• Apache 1.13.19 or above
• MySQL, XML, and Zlib functionalities enabled in PHP

Even cheap hosting should fulfill such requirements. Most of large hosting companies provide two types of hosting: Windows or Linux hosting. For Joomla! you need the Linux hosting.

Joomla 1.6 is supposed to be released this year, although the developers avoid setting the firm date, since there is still some work to be done. Perhaps you can contribute as well? You can help in translating part of documentation or tutorial, or, if you are familiar with PHP, you can find and fix bugs. 

As far as hosting goes, Joomla 1.6 will require significant upgrade in server software.

Web server survey for February 2010 performed by Netcraft returned over 207 316 000 web sites. The drop of about 20 milion sites from previously reported numbers is a result of changes in QQ.com provider, which changed most of its blogs to private.

Apache web server still has the largest share, at 54.4%, with Microsoft IIS at second place at 24.6%. Google web server continue to increase its share, now it is at 6.9%. Nginx's market share decreased a little because of decrease in active blogs at Wordpress.com. 

The top most reliable hosting companies for January 2010 are: 

Web server survey for April 2009 performed by Netcraft returned over 231 510 000 web sites. As usual, Apache web server has the largest share, with Microsoft IIS at second place and Chinese QQ at third place, with almost 29 million sites. Google and nginx servers continue to increase their shares, they have 3.12% and 2.64 share, respectively.