Trying to find a place to store your website can be tricky. Even after being a web designer for several years, I still haven't been able to find one which reaches all my needs and acquires for all your needs come rain or shine.
I have a tried a few in the past and it has either been a success or a total failure. But one lately was such a failure that after trying everything to work round their problems, I was very close to throwing my laptop against the wall.
This web hosting site is Joomla, I was introduced to it by a client who based her business on it, her previous web designer had used it to create her website and I was quite taken back how complex it was and just brushed this off as I thought it was just first thoughts and would easily find my way round it, parts of this was right.
It took me a couple of days to understand how Joomla works and at the same time how I thought how much of a rip off it is. Joomla in my eyes is a Managed hosting service which means that you don't get full control over hosting your own website. So basically you are limited to what you want to do, this can be a catch 22, you avoid performing dodgy tasks but at the same time you can't get the full benefit of your website.
A perfect example of this is introducing youtube videos to your website. My client wanted a few videos from her youtube channel to be put on to her website, the simple way to do this is get the embedded html coding from the video you want and then simple copy and paste it into your html coding on your website. This usually works with the majority of websites but that didn't work in this case, more research showed that in order to be able to use youtube videos you have to pay Joomla for a add on to use youtube videos. So as well as paying for the web storage and domain name, Joomla are also charging to let you use videos which should be free to use in the first place. I was shocked and surprised people are still using Joomla.
To use PHP and JavaScript, you also have to pay to use this service. I find it totally absurd that you have to pay to use open source coding in your website and also open source videos. One good part of Joomla is that due to being forced to pay for these services, some members make the software they create for Joomla free of service but it is still tricky to use and install.
In conclusion, Joomla is useless and I don't think I can say any more.
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