IX Web Hosting Joomla Web Hosting Review

January 6th, 2010

Everybody webmaster or internet surfer have heard of Joomla – the content management system. It is free, open-source licensed under GNU General Public License, powered by PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor, web scripting language more info: php.net website) and a database backend (MySQL or other). The primary feature of Joomla content management: text, posts, static pages, media, photos, but Joomla is much more than that. It is portal web software with lots of features like:
* Template manager (easily change the look of your website, there are thousands free and professional templates available on the internet)
* Extension system (extend functionality by add new modules, add features, also many free and professional modules available)
* User Management (create social website with user registration, add, edit users, setup permissions and advanced options)
* Menu menager (create, edit menus, menu blocks and more)
* Web link management (add links to external sites, or internal pages, etc)
* Polss (find what users want)
* Search function
* Internationalization – available in many languages
* Contact Management
* Banner Management (add banners to different parts of your websites, counts impressions, clicks, data on user etc)

and much much more. There are thousands more features available thanks to the module system. You can setup forums, blogs, galleries all within Joomla. Together with Drupal (drupal.org) they are the top two cms in the world. More info on joomla can be found on their official website joomla.org where it can be downloaded.

IX Web Hosting Joomla Review

I tested Joomla and it runs without any problems on IxWebHosting. I installed it with hsphere quick apps tool – one click install of many popular scripts. Here is a screenshot of the website:

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