Hmmm an interesting point of view Matt. One man's meat and so on. But as the guy has a brief to use Joomla, Wordpress is not really an option. If you alter key files - Joomla or WP - then upgrading is a mare. WP is much much easier for someone, like Andy's friend, to use, but Joomla is easier to customise IMHO. One WP site that I have inherited is taking a lot of work at the moment. Its functionality depends on 2 or 3 plugins which it is very difficult to upgrade. But having learnt from a previous experience I now put multiple layers of security around each site so both systems are really quite safe - I hope . Anyway I'm no real guru.



On 19 February 2014 09:17, Matthew Moore <matt@smtl.co.uk> wrote:

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On 19/02/14 07:44, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo,
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:36:09AM +0000, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:52:48PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>>> A fairly non-technical friend of mine is looking for Joomla hosting.
>
> [?]
>
>> Not really an answer, but if joomla is not totally required and can
use maybe
>> Jekyll, and what he needs fits as a github page, he/she might be able
to use
>> github pages.
>
> It needs to be Joomla because the person who he has to do the
> initial templating and content upload wants to use Joomla.
>
> If I can find no commercial Joomla hosting, and the guy doing the
> work can suggest none, then I may suggest they use Wordpress
> instead.

There is loads of Joomla hosting out there.  But nothing I can
personally recommend.  Because even if I had used any Joomla hosting I
couldn't recommend any specific Joomla hosting.  Because Joomla is a
totally awful piece of software.  If you just look at the number of CVEs
out there for Joomla (300+) against Wordpress (160ish).  Basically your
Joomla site is going to get hacked.  I've inherited a couple of Joomla
sites and they're awful to use, awful to theme/skin and you have to be
incredibly vigilant to stop them getting hacked.

However if it's general webhosting, I personally think 34sp.com are
excellent.  Also they have one click installers for several common CMS,
including Joomla.  Once you've got a Joomla install going, updating it
is as easy as clicking a button.  Until it comes to move between
versions, which can be a bit of a nightmare.

So basically suggest that the guy uses Wordpress.  Or anything.  Just
not Joomla.

HTH

Matt

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