Best Joomla Hosting - 2012 Joomla Hosting Awards

As a powerful and easy-to-use open source application, Joomla is powering 2.7 percent of the web sites for individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations. Joomla is supported by a community with over 200,000 contributors, where you can find hundreds of free plug-ins and themes to create a beautiful site.

A fast & reliable Joomla hosting is critical to the success of your online business. And "Best Joomla Hosting" awards are given to the web hosting vendors who have outperformed their competitors on price value, customer support, usability, and reliability when hosting a Joomla site.

Best Joomla Hosting Awards

Note: please refer to How We Select the Hosting Award Winners about the process we select the hosting award winners.

Why They are the Best Joomla Hosting

Basic hosting requirements for Joomla are Apache 2+, MySQL 5.0.4+, and PHP 5.2.4+. It looks very easy to find a Joomla hosting as almost all the products in the market could come with those features. But a good Joomla hosting need to be far beyond those basic requirement and should include world-class data center with fast internet connection, powerful web server, optimized MySQL, php, and Apache, etc.

After careful evaluation, Hostgator, Bluehost, and Inmotinhosting win the award of "Best Joomla Hosting" in 2011. The hosting solutions from them could run Joomla fast, and their customer service are also great.

HostGator is awarded as "Best Joomla Hosting" for its fast&stable web host and responsive support. The performance of database (MySQL or PostgreSQL) has been well tuning so that your Joomla can run very fast in Hostgator. HostGator was also recognized as 21st fastest growing private company in the United States by Inc. Magazine in 2008.

Bluehost is a very popular shared web hosting in the industry, it's fast and cheap. With only $3.95/month, you will get unlimited disk space, bandwidht, and host unlimited domain in one account. Their MySQL has been well optimized and can be access very fast, this really make Joomla run easily in it. Another thing makes Bluehost special is that after 30 days trial period, you can request your remaining money back based on how many months you still have with them. This is really keep your money in safe.

Inmotionhosting is another top level web hosts who use powerful servers to serve their customers. InMotion Hosting's exclusive Speed Zone technology helps keep your website and email fast by locating your data as close to you as possible. And Inmotion hosting have one of world best customer support team to help you out when you meet any hosting issue.

In above, we list out some great shared web hosting for Joomla, but this type of hosting will limit your usuage on CPU or Memory, it's uaually not a good choice for Joomla site with high traffic. According to data we have collected, most webmasters will consider to migrate their site to VPS when daily page view exceed 500. So, if you get a busy Joomla site, you shoud consider VPS or dedicated hosting.