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Symptom

You have read about „Joomla hosting“, special web hosting plans that have been optimized for Joomla and can deliver Joomla websites particularly fast and reliably. Joomla 1-click install, automatic Joomla updates, web server cache, data compression and more. Do you need Joomla hosting?

Solution

As web hosting companies experience difficulties to distinguish their services against competitors, they often put different features of the exact same webhosting plans into the foreground and name their webspace plans differently. For instance, in “Joomla hosting”, the Joomla 1-click install and the automatic Joomla updates are being underlined. These features are included with every Bitpalace webspace plan, too – while they are not called “Joomla hosting”. The cache memory, that is also frequently advertised by others and said to speed-up Joomla content dramatically, is a natural thing or can easily be added to any Joomla installation by a plugin, no matter where the website is running at.

Finally, many “Joomla hosting” providers suggest in their advertisements, that HTTP/2 and web server caching are a special feature of the Joomla hosting plan and can deliver Joomla content particularly fast. Webspace providers abuse the ignorance of their customers and create phantasies about magical software on the server that makes websites much faster than when delivered from competitor’s systems.

For comparison: Each Bitpalace webspace plan includes HTTP/2 by default. They all include Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of an Apache web server, that delivers static content much faster than Apache, which many others use as their only web server.

Bottom line: „Joomla hosting“ is ordinary web hosting. Customers are enticed to believe that the web space they are leasing is specifically designed for Joomla. In reality, they can achieve the same results with any ordinary Bitpalace webspace plan while staying flexible, because the plan’s features work with other software, too.

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