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For your Joomla! website you need a hosting service provider who understands, believes in and works with Joomla!

Joomla! Website Hosting South Africa

When looking for a website and e-mail hosting service provider, look for a company who offers a range of hosting packages rather than one standard cost, a choice of packages will help you find the best service to suite the requirements for your businesses or personal website.

Make sure that the hosting service provider offers expert, informative and helpful hosting and Joomla! Support as part of the package.  Support is a non-negotiable.  You don't want to be left in the dark with questions or problems you don't know how to fix or will have to pay a fortune to have fixed by someone one else.  Make sure you find a service provider who is an expert in their field, who is committed to providing a great service.

An excellent security service to keep your eyes open for when looking for a Joomla! Hosting service provider, is a daily server backup.  This will ensure that if in the event of a site hack or other major problem, you will be assured that you will never lose more than a day's information.

Some e-mail hosting features that are helpful are the following:

  • Forwarding & Auto responders
  • Alias Forwarding
  • Anti-Virus Scanning
  • Anti-Spam Filter
(as part of the package and not as at an extra cost.  You shouldn't need to be charged extra to have your e-mails forwarded to an additional e-mail address or to have an auto responder included, these are very simple procedures for hosting service providers, so don't be fooled).

Joomla! Website Hosting Features:

Joomla! website and E-mail hosting

Make sure that your choice of a hosting service provider includes installation of your Joomla! Website, if you're not familiar with Joomla!, you don't want to be left having to attempt doing this yourself, especially when it is as easy as the “A, B, C's” to the Joomla! Experts.  Also take note of the disk space availability of the package you choose.

Some hosting service providers offer the domain registration as part of the deal, free, at no added cost to you.  Other hosting service providers will charge you for the registration.  Remember that a website domain needs to be renewed every year, some hosting service providers do this free of charge to you without your knowledge, or they may charge you, enquire about the domain renewal policy.

Some Joomla! Hosting service providers offer really neat packages that could include a free Joomla! Template and Joomla! Training or Joomla! tutorials.  These can prove very helpful to beginners of Joomla!  Other service providers may be experts in Internet solutions and may offer SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or other marketing extras as part of the package, or may offer a Joomla! Installation, design and hosting package.  You need to look at what the company's niche area is, what field they are experts in or are passionate about or give focus to, then look at your company / business / service / personal site and decide which will be most beneficial to your business.

If you need any further assistance or support on Joomla! website or e-mail hosting, you can contact the Joomla.org.za team on 035 772 4555 or 035 772 2712, or e-mail us here...

Happy hosting hunting!

The Joomla.org.za Team