As a powerful and easy-to-use open source application, Joomla is the most popular Content Management system in the industry. It is used by millions of people or companies to create their sites for corporation, news, knowledge sharing, articles, or blog.

A Joomla-optimized hosting is the major successful factor for a Joomla site. In below, "Best Joomla Hosting" awards will be given those web hosting verdors who have outperformed their competitors in Joomla hosting from shared hosting, vps hosting to dedicated hosting.

Best Shared Hosting for Joomla

Recommended hosting solution is VPS at least. But there are still some cases that you can use shared hosting to host your Joomla site, such as:

• Daily Unique IP traffic of your Joomla site is less than 200, or
• You need a development, testing or staging environment for Joomla site

For a shared hosting will limit your usuage on CPU or Memory, it's uaually not a good choice for Joomla site with a lot of traffic, according to a survey made by our site, most of webmaster will have to consider migrate their site to a VPS hosting environment when the daily uniqui IPs go over 200.

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.

midPhase is another top shared linux hosting vendor, and they also postion themselves to provide top level support to open source application. Their environment has been carefully configured to run most of open source php application, and Joomla is included for shared.

Best VPS Hosting for Joomla

VPS hosting is highly recommended if your traffic go between 200 and 800 unique IPs. Joomla can run ok in a 256MB VPS, but if you want to get a better performance, 512MB memory will be required.

Lunarpages is a leading web hosting company in the industry, and it's the only company who is awarded with "Best VPS hosting for Joomla".Their VPS hosting price is affordable, and their VPS hosts are well-optimized for Joomla - fast and reliable.

Best Dedicated Hosting for Joomla

Rank	Web Hosting Companies	Price	Features	Review
#1		$99.99	Dual-Core: 2*2.4 GHZ 2 GB Memory, 2 * 250GB Disk Space 2000GB Monthly Transfer 100Mbps Data Connection	Read Review
#2		$159.95	Quad Core: 4*2.4 GHZ 4GB Memory, 1*250GBDisk Space 1000GB Monthly Transfer 1000Mbps Data Connection	Read Review
#3		$219	Dual-Core: 1.86 GHZ 4GB Memory, 2*250GB Disk Space 15GB Monthly Transfer 100Mbps Data Connection	Read Review

After you have successfully attracted significant amount of traffic, a dedicated hosting will be the only choice for your Joomla site. 

1&1 dedicated hosting server is excellent in the industry. It's cheap and powerful. When working with 1&1, you need to decide what type of server you want to get from them, Managed Server or Root Server. Root server will allow you to get the full control on the whole server (including root password), which means you have to be very skilled since 1&1 cannot help you if you have troubles. A managed server will be your right choice if you are not skillful enough, in this case, 1&1 will help manage your server including what applying OS patch, installing platform software, etc. You will not allow changing the configuraion of server as you want as it's the only way that 1&1 can help you when there are some problems shown up.

midPhase and HostGator are another 2 leading dedicated server vendors, compared with 1&1, their price are higher, but they will give you a business level support, they will help managing the server, answering all the question you have and doing the nightly backup for you. They are your right choice for your business-critical site.