Douglas De’ Neill asked: Web Hosting helps you to make your website live on the web and Content Management Systems provide users with a simple platform to create and manage the content of their websites, without having to incur web design fees for all changes.
As a lot of people prefer to use open source operating systems and application software, Joomla on Linux hosting is a favourite combination for today’s webmasters.
Joomla is a free open source CMS (Content Management System) that provides you with a powerful yet simple interface to add, remove and modify website content, images and develop product gallery pages. Here is a list of features that come with Joomla!
Page caching for better performance
RSS Feeds
News Flash
Blog
Polls
Search option
Language internationalization
With these features developers can design advanced Web 2.0 websites easily. RSS, Blogs, Polls, Search options and Internationalization or Localization are the features very much essential for modern interactive websites and you get all the features under one roof by choosing Joomla!
Professional Linux web hosting providers offer Joomla as an integrated part of their hosting service. Like Linux, Joomla is also an open source application built with PHP and it uses MySQL database by default. Joomla on Linux hosting offers a flexible website management environment for users.
Linux hosting providers generally offer Joomla for free as a part of their hosting plans. While choosing your web hosting service, look for the provider that offers Joomla so that it becomes easy for you to manage you website.
Joomla! 1.5.6 was released in August 2008 and solves a lot of security issues. Popular hosting service providers have already upgraded Joomla so that their clients can access the latest technologies.
If you have been using Joomla, upgrade it now, or contact your service provider to inquire if they can help you get the upgraded version.