Joomla is a content management platform that’s one of the most popular web development programs on the internet. Joomla is open source, free to use, and nearly three percent of all sites on the internet depend on it. It can be used to create e-commerce sites, social networking platforms, forums, personal websites, galleries, and more. A lot of the largest websites use Joomla on their back end, including eBay, Barnes & Noble, IKEA, and GE, as well as countless government websites. Considering how powerful and versatile Joomla is as a web development tool, it behooves hosting companies to make it easy to use with all of their hosting plans.
HostGator fully supports Joomla, and tens of thousands of HostGator-hosted sites use it as a content management and development system. The latest versions of Joomla, Joomla 1.6.x and 1.7.x, require PHP, MySQL, and Apache or Microsoft IIS to install and run properly, all of which HostGator provides. In many cases, they actually exceed Joomla’s installation requirements. This content development system and its addons have also been developed and tested on cPanel, so HostGator users who choose cPanel for their control panel software can rest assured that they won’t run into any conflicts between their account’s control panel and their content development system.
HostGator’s accounts all have generous amounts of storage space, which is good for site owners that like to use a lot of Joomla addons. ‘Out of the box,’ Joomla doesn’t take up much space, but certain addons for e-commerce shops, forums, social networking platforms, and other specialty sites can end up causing the content management platform to place increasingly high demands on a user’s disk space. Unlike other hosts, HostGator doesn’t end up slamming customers with overage fees if they use more than their share of bandwidth or disk space- all shared accounts have unlimited storage and bandwidth, dedicated server users have a whole server to themselves, and VPS users have a virtual server carved out for themselves, so these accounts are ideal to use with Joomla.
Installing Joomla on HostGator is simple. Advanced users can choose to manually install Joomla, but inexperienced users don’t need to worry about going through all of that. HostGator offers QuickInstall, an automatic installation program that allows users to install Joomla to their HostGator account with one click. All they need to do is go to their cPanel, choose ‘QuickInstall’ from their list of programs, and select Joomla. After filling out a short form, they can click ‘Install Now!’, have their installation go through automatically, and be setting up their Joomla-powered site just minutes later.
3% of the internet can’t be wrong, and it’s not a coincidence that many of the largest, most heavily-used sites on the internet rely on Joomla for their content management and development. HostGator gives you the ideal environment to install Joomla quickly and easily, and use it for creating and managing all of your web content, no matter what kind of site you’re working on.