Joomla is basically a content management system that enables its users to develop websites and other internet based applications. The application has a variety of aspects such as ease of use and extensibility which has in return made it the most popular website hosting software available and when this software is being used to manage contents from websites then we refer to the process as Joomla hosting.
Benefits of Joomla Hosting Services
Joomla hosting enables their users to keep track of each and every piece of content of a user’s website more or less the same way a school library may keep track of its books while storing them. The contents being managed can range from simple texts, photos, music, video, documents or anything that can be uploaded digitally on an online system and one of the key advantages is that it requires very little technical skills or knowledge to effectively manage the system mainly because the system is built to automatically manage user contents.
This type of hosting is already being used today to maintain a number of websites regardless of their sizes whereby these include; corporate websites, portals, intranets and extranets, online magazines, electronic commerce and online reservations web applications, Church websites and personal WebPages.
Acquiring the Services
Joomla client can be manually installed from a source code on a system that is running web servers that support PHP applications by using a turnkey appliance that consists of the application and its dependencies as a ready to use product.
Joomla hosting today is the most cost effective way of maintaining websites because even a novice user can easily perform some single click install and within minutes, their websites will be up and running and web applications developer can also empower their clients to manage their websites for themselves hence saving clients money which could have been levied as website maintenance fee.
Joomla hosting also has extensible support worldwide from its vibrant and growing community of friendly users and talented web developers that today stands at over 200,000 contributors which also makes the future of Joomla services brighter.
Key Business Applications
Joomla comes with in built powerful application framework that makes it easy for web application developers to come up with sophisticated add-on tools that extend the power of the Joomla into unlimited directions, and the Joomla framework will enable web developers to expediently come up with a number of key system applications such as inventory control systems, application bridges, data reporting tools, integrated electronic commerce systems, communication tools, reservation systems, and complex business directories among others and also going by the fact that Joomla is based on PHP and MySQL open source technologies, developers can easily come up with incredible web applications on an open source platform that anybody can easily use, share and support.