Joomla Now Offers Free Hosted Websites via Joomla.com
Joomla, one of the world's most popular content management systems, has opened its digital doors wider than ever before by offering up free, hosted website solutions.
Make no mistake, this is big news from one of the biggest players in the CMS world. Joomla is an open-source, award-winning platform, powering millions of websites and online applications across the world.
Now, thanks to a partnership with hosting company Siteground, anybody can sign up for a free Joomla website via Joomla.com.
Joomla In Just A Few Clicks
To make Joomla.com removes hosting fees, lengthy installations and some expandability options. The result is that a Joomla website is now just a few clicks away from the average person and business. Here are the feature highlights:
- Hosting for all Joomla.com websites is totally free.
- Free site name at the joomla.com subdomain (for example: mywebsite.joomla.com).
- Comes pre-installed with additional extensions, templates, and all available languages.
- Automatic updates.
Joomla.com doesn't offer everything that self-hosted Joomla users can get, though.
As of right now, Joomla.com includes a set of pre-selected templates and several very useful pre-installed extensions like Google analytics, Google maps integration, Disqus powered comments and social media sharing options. However, Joomla.com wouldn't be suitable for a user looking to build an advanced website with custom code and a wider choice of templates and extensions. Then again, that's what Joomla.org is for.
Having said that, Joomla has claimed that websites started at Joomla.com can easily be developed later into full-fledged self-hosted Joomla projects without any limitations on extendability.
The President of Open Source Matters Inc. (which provides legal and financial support to the Joomla project), Sarah Watz, made these comments upon the release of Joomla.com:
“I’m very excited because the new service at joomla.com makes Joomla! CMS a more accessible option than ever.”
I take my hat off to Joomla, for this step towards greater accessibility is precisely what I called for from the world of CMS in 2015.
For more information on this release, check out the Joomla announcement. To get your free Joomla website, head over to Joomla.com.
Also, be sure to explore more of Joomla via our CMS Directory.