Joomla hosting — managed for you, or a server of your own

What Joomla is

Joomla is a content management system for building websites and online applications. It sits between a simple blogging tool and a bespoke build: content types, categories and access levels are part of the core rather than something you add, so a site with several kinds of content and several kinds of visitor can be modelled without writing code for it.

Why teams build on Joomla

Joomla is chosen most often where a site has real structure and real editors — membership organisations, publishers, schools, government and multilingual sites. Multiple languages and granular user permissions are built in rather than bolted on, which is the usual reason a team picks it over the alternatives, and its extension directory covers most of what a content site needs.

What you get, on both

• On a managed plan, Joomla is installed and running the day you sign up — no server to set up, no PHP to configure, and the platform's whole feature set below is included on every tier.
• On a cloud server, the machine is yours with root access and is built to the Joomla stack profile. A Joomla site with a large content catalogue and a lot of logged-in editors uses memory and database connections that, on your own server, nobody else is drawing on.
• Backups are included and taken automatically on both, with the option to keep a month of the file system and two of the databases — so a bad deploy is something you roll back rather than something you rebuild.
• You choose where it runs. The managed platform is live in London, Dallas and Singapore; the cloud range runs in eight cities across North America, Europe and Asia. Both are listed further down the page.

Plans and pricing

Two rungs of one product. Managed Joomla hosting is the quickest way to have a site running; a cloud server is the same application on a machine you control. Every price is monthly or yearly, and yearly is two months free.

• Try it firstEvery managed plan starts with a free trial of 14 days, so you can put a real site on it before you pay for anything.
• 30-day money-back guaranteeIf a managed plan is not right for you, tell us within 30 days of your first payment and we refund it. Application hosting is covered. Read the refund policy
• Real support, includedSupport is included on every plan, from people who run this platform rather than a script. Accounts that cannot wait can go to the front of the queue. How priority support works

Everything included

Choose where your site lives

Pick the data centre closest to the people you serve. All three are live today, and your site runs on the same platform in each.

Where to go next

The pages people usually read after this one — the platform underneath, the rest of the range, and the help you get once you are here.

• The shared platformWhat every managed plan runs on — the specification, the allowances and the tools.
• Managed cloud serversThe full range of machines, every size and what each one costs.
• One-click applicationsEverything else you can install in a click, with a page for each of the popular ones.
• Move an existing siteWe copy the site and map the old URLs to the new ones, so the rankings come with it.
• Site speed-upA hands-on engineering pass over one site: caching, images, fonts and the database.
• Knowledge baseGuides for setup, DNS, email, SSL and everything after you are live.

Questions people ask before they buy