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WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal

wordpress vs joomla vs drupal

WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are three of the best and most popular Blog/CMS softwares on the internet. There're various comparison of the three softwares due to their popularity. In this article we'll provide our own opinions about the three Apps by years working experience with them.

Background, Review and Comparison

Before we make the comparison, let's give it a quick review of the history and statistics of wordpress, joomla and drupal. Let's start with wordpress.

Why wordpress? – It's definitely the hottest solution for bloggers. over 90% top level domain blogs are wordpress based on the globe. WordPress was released when more and more people be able to purchase some MBs server space and host their own websites/blogs.

Wordpress started as blog software, but the usage is growing rapidly and more and more communities joined it's development. The result is more and more plugins/themes added to download area. For it's light weight design and powerful plugin/theme support. WordPress is used on more and more websites and working more than a blog software but content management system.

What's good of Joomla? – Joomla is absolutely the best CMS software which can be handled by start users and developers. You can easily manage the site layout by editing the source files from backend. all joomla functions are centralized from admin and you can navigate easily.

Best of the best for joomla is there're thousands of free and commercial components to support your projects, if you're going to launch a community site or shopping mall, joomla has side by side support to get your website running perfectly. Another important thing is joomla has perfect SEO structure to rank your website high. Their official site and support community has the highest page rank (PR9).

Who should use Drupal? – Drupal should be the most powerful CMS among the three softwares. Actually Drupal is released more developers friendly from either the package structure of code design. You have to make a lot of customization in order to put up a production site.

For a start user, you may find it little hard to understand how to get started with drupal since it has almost everything get ready. Although you have to learn a bit more in order to use drupal, there're thousands of successful famous sites are drupal based. Drupal is also mostly used for website backend admin.

Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal

Let's first take a look about the usage over the 3 softwares

wordpress vs joomla vs drupal

From above introduction for wordpress, joomla and drupal you should found that wordpress is still the most ideal choice for blog site purpose, if you need to put up a small CMS application, wordpress is still be able to handle. Joomla is completely deisgned for Content Management System (CMS). If you have a lot of products to show up, it's better to use joomla other than wordpress. Especially when you're dealing with ecommerce solutions, joomla is almost the MUST. As for drupal, as long as you're familiar with coding and some programming skills, it's highly recommended since it will bring up a secure and well formed website. Generally speaking, if you need to use drupal, you have to get a developer to work with or you have to learn a bit by yourself.

Conclusion: WordPress is still most recommended for blogging, Joomla is best choice if you're going to launch a big website with lots of products. If you like to customize and manage the application side by side by yourself, drupal is the ideal choice. Normally, you're a learned developer if drupal is your favorite.

Best Web Hosting for wordpress, joomla and drupal

After you got the final choice from the website softwares, you will start the journey to find a suitable web hosting provider. To shorten your search and comparison, we recommend the following hosting providers with our dedicated experience with their services.

Arvixe – Arvixe hosting (both asp.net hosting and Linux hosting) are 100% compatible with wordpress, joomla and drupal. you get free domain name and one the longest money back guarantee – 60 days! You can also save 30% by using our most promotional arvixe coupon.

WebhostingHub – The top web hosting provider with fast web server and low price hosting solutions. Their powerful hosting server and datacenters are leading in hosting industry. With standard cpanel hosting and up to 90 days money back guarantee, you can feel worry free to deal with their service. Sign up today for $1.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://www.webhostinghub.com

Best Webdav Hosting

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What's Webdav?

Webdav is a http protocol which let you map the remote server space to your local disk drive. You can easily manage your website files just like on your local computer disk partion. Webdav simplifed the process of website deployment.

Best Webdav Hosting Provider

There're not so many web hosting service be able to support a subset of WebDAV. Till present, the best web hosts with webdav supported are hostgator and arvixe.

Arvixe and hostgator webdav hosting Features

1. Lots of hosting features to help with a successful website
2. Fantastic customer support and user guide tutorials
3. Pretty cheap web hosting plan and hosting coupon available
4. A long time money back guarantee


How is webdav supported?

Webdav is supported by both windows and linux server, but for many issues, webdav on windows IIS is not offered by all majoy hosts, it's mostly used on linux or unix like system. With a standard cpanel hosting server, webdav is enabled by default, you can easily manage it via regular user login.

How to enable webdav in cpanel?

You can follow the steps below to configure webdav service in your cpanel

1. Login to cPanel and click the Web Disk icon.
2. Scroll down and click the Access Web Disk button.
3. Choose your operating system (the one you use on your personal computer).
4. Scroll down and hit the Go button.
5. Click the Save button.
6. On your computer, hit Save, Open, and Run.
7. You are now viewing website files from your personal computer.

If you would like to take webdav advantages from IIS hosting service, arvixe be able to enable for your account as well. If not, just contact support and they will do needful assistance.

Webdav configuration tutorials: www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-publishing-technologies/installing-and-configuring-webdav-on-iis

Webdav vs FTP vs remote iis manager, which is better?

Technically speaking, webdav, remote iis manager and ftp are all doing the same work – "website management". Not sure which is the best solution?. Well, they're not completely doing the same work. Webdav and FTP are mainly configured for file transfer. Remote IIS manager is only available for windows server and configured for IIS service management other than file transfer. Let's take a look from below about webdav and ftp comparison.

1. Ftp requires ftp server to work with and you  have to create user credentials seprately on your server system, but webdav is another story, webdav has it's own secre authentication protocol without any additional system user accounts.

2. Security – You have to configure many settings in order to use secure ftp because it's completely plain text transfer as default. But you can simply use https directly for webdav file transfer, it saved a lot of time for server admin or webmasters.

3. Speed – FTP file transfer rate is pretty slow comparing to webdav, ftp file transfer will open multiple tcp connections while webdav only uses one.

4. Ftp always got blocked by some kinds of firewall, but webdav hardly got into such issues since it's http protocol based.

5. You have to use third party ftp software in order to ftping. With webdav you only open the connection just double clicking the virtual disk mapping then you can drag and drop files between the remote server and your local computer. Webdav is definitely more convenient than ftp.

Conclusion: If you have the chance to use webdav, you will find it's more professional than ftp, but please make sure your computer is protected to avoid potential abuse and virus attack because your hosting space will be mapped to your computer directly.

iPage vs Fatcow

ipage vs fatcow

iPage vs Fatcow

Are you interested in either of these two web hosting service? Do you have the problem to determine which one to choose from? In this article we'll compare ipage and fatcow side by side on hosting features, server uptime, support service and general price value.

iPage Introduction

Ipage is an old brand hosting service 1999 and has been rated top since from the start. With over 1 million domains hosted all over the world, ipage is featured for it's stability and high performance. Besides, ipage is probably provides the best price from the industry – 60% off with only $1.99/mo! If you're not sure how to get this ipage discount offer, please visit our previous ipage coupon for detailed steps. Generally speaking, ipage is ideal choice for webmasters who has limited budget but want to host multiple websites under the same hosting space.

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Fatcow Introduction

Fatcow is also a famous web hosting provider and strong competitor to many other hosting services. Fatcow provides full website hosting solutions including sitebuilder, ecommerce builder and web design service to meet any customer requirement. Based its advanced hosting features and super stable hosting server, fatcow is powering thousands of high performance websites. Fatcow also provides big discount hosting for as low as $44/yr. For detailed information, please visit our fatcow review page for steps on how to get up to 50% fatcow hosting discount.

iPage vs Fatcow for Hosting Features

Both ipage and fatcow provide a single shared unix hosting solution with almost the same technical offers. They both provide a free domain registration or transfer, Unlimited account storage and data transfer, unlimited database and email support. The few bucks monthly price simply provides everything unlimited to fulfill your needs.

iPage vs Fatcow for Performance

iPage and fatcow are actually sharing the same hardware and network facility. Hosting servers are enterprise grade DELL with Debian linux platform. All servers are hosted on endurance data centers with advanced upstream bandwidth supply. The server farm setup provides central SAN disk storage with RAID 10 setup. Each server is properly monitored with load balancing configuration. You may get slowness ocassionally but hardly get service down. The entire system is setup by smart control with max automation.

iPage vs Fatcow for Support

Because they're centrally supported together, both ipage and fatcow provide same support resource. Either technical documents, web chat, email or phone call etc are from same support center. Currently, there're two major support groups – Phone support and Chat support. The phone support is headquatered in US while chat support is mainly handled in India. No matter which support team you contact, you will be served the same.

Ipage vs Fatcow, which one is better?

Before you know the result, you should firstly know that ipage and fatcow are actually owned by the same company – EIG.

Yes, both ipage and fatcow are acquired by EIG in year 2008, although they made little disturbulance about their services. For webmasters who have experienced with many web hosting services they will tell you that both Ipage and Fatcow are using the same hosting control panel, sharing the same knowledge base and even the same website structure and hosting offer. They play to be independent but all their services are managed under the same place.

Ipage and Fatcow promotion comparison

Both Ipage and fatcow are offerring the biggest promotion in history, what are they? look below:

Ipage -> $1.99/mo (Ipage highest promotion)

Fatcow -> $42/yr (the biggest promotion in history)

Conclusion: If you're going to host a personal blog or small website, both hosting will be ok, what you should look for is which hosting will save you more money, currently fatcow is definitely the right choice. If you're going to launch a big or high traffic website such as ecommerce hosting, Ipage should always be your primary choice.


China Firewall and Web Hosting

china firewall and best web hosting

China Firewall Quick view

Firewall protects your network and computer health, that's good. But things are little different to Chinese people especially Chinese webmasters. There's a general national firewalll setup on their internet gateway that will block a certain outbound connections. In this article we'll discuss how it works and what should Chinese webmasters do in order to put up a healthy website.

How does China Firewall work?

China firewall or great firewall(short for GFW), it's a project supported by Chinese government over the entire Chinese internet gateway. The GFW's main work is to block websites which's considered to be "dangerous" or potential dangerous, it's generally referring to political, sexal and some illegal stuff. Till present, 3 of the world's most popular community sites are officially blocked by GFW – Facebook, Youtube and Twitter.

Why the firewall?

Although the internet business is growing rapidly in China, their internet quality is not as good as other countries such as Japan, Korea, US etc. Since the internet is open for every people on the globe and there're lots of news and discussion topics every day and let people know more about the outside world, it also brings issues to some parties and they always want to avoid some sensitive information in order to keep up their interests and control.

What's effect of GFW?

The biggest problem created by this firewall is it blocked a certain famous sites such as facebook, it blocked the communication between Chinese people and the outside world, this must be a historical backward. The worst of the worst to webmasters is they will have to take the risk their hosting server/website will be blocked some day.

Is there any good of this firewall?

Yes, it does have some contribution to internet people in china, at least the Chinese people won't be able to open some adult sites which is absolutely bad for children.

What should Chinese webmasters do?

Surely, since there's a firewall infront of every Chinese webmaster, they have to follow the rules to putup a live site. The first thing is not to mention politics and sex related topics on their websites. The second and most important is to find a good hosting service which is not GFW friendly.

Best Web Hosting service for China Friendly

Since we're talking about firewall in this article, we'll mainly focus on this point but not others such as pricing. After out search and research, we found ixwebhosting should be the best choice for Chinese webmasters. Why? Just look following

  • Inhouse managed datacenters
  • up to 15 free dedicated IPs
  • 99% Uptime guarantee
  • Free domain registration
  • Multiple domain hosting

What we're really looking for? Definitely the up to 15 free dedicated IPs. why dedicated IP is so important in this topic? Because the firewall generally blocks a certain ips from some special websites, however if you have the option to change website IP then it's possible to avoid the block.

ixwebhosting for china

Dedicated IP is also wished by many other webmasters for SEO consideration, the search engine will assume that a website hosted on dedicated ip is working on dedicated server so there's no penalty to your website if some other websites are causing problems on the same hosting server.

Besides all above advantages, ixwebhosting also prepared Chinese support and local payment solutions to support Chinese webmasters well. It showed their efforts and confidence to earn business success in that district. Read more about Ixwbehosting China.

Read ixwebhosting review
Visit www.ixwebhosting.com for official plan details now!

Globat vs Easycgi

globat vs easy cgi

Globat vs Easycgi, which is better hosting? It might be a little strange to compare the two web hosts since they're not as hot as they were before. But the comparison is quite helpful to start users. Especially when you're not sure which host to work with while they provide similar technicial features.

Globat introduction

Globat setup their web hosting business since 2001 in Los Angeles and quickly became a well known brand in this industry by offerring reliable and affordable hosting plans. I think people who have experience with globat in the earliest times would be proud of the services. Every hosting brands are trying their best to serve clients from each side, their earliest times are always outstanding comparing to many concurrent competitors. Globat's business got roburst under thoese guy's hard work, served clients grow from 0 to 100,000 worldwide and became one of the majoy hosts at that time.

globat hosting

But things got changed in year 2009 after acquired by EIG, their service got most complaints for unstable server and downtime everyday.  If we read the next stories of EIG we will find that globat plays exactly the same as webhost4life. same level hosting services and the same results after several year's improvement.

Easycgi introduction

Whenever we mention easycgi this name, many people would miss its golden times in web hosting. Yes that's true, easycgi is absolutely a hot name before year 2008. It's honored for its great technology support and reliable platform by webmasters who host international business websites. Easycgi offered side by side support to this area including optimized hosting server and bandwidth, promotional hosting features and affordable hosting plans. If you were looking for microsoft technologies side by side support, easycgi is definitely one of your best choice.

easycgi hosting

However, what we're talking about is it's old times not at the moment. If you ask us if easycgi is a recommended hosting we'll answer without hesitation "No". it seems easycgi messed up everything after acquired by EIG and their name is funlly renamed to "hardcgi" by webmasters. We don't know why but it's the truth, easycgi is a nightmare to many people.

Globat vs Easycgi

Globat and Easycgi, who do you like? Do you have to choose between these two hosts? The only difference between them is globat offers linux hosting plan while easycgi only offers windows hosting plan from shared hosting. After merged into the same provider, their servers and support etc are on same platform. Honestly speaking, except for some technical support difference, everything else is the same. If you're hesitate between these two hosts, congratulations! you have the time to find another hosting provider!

Eastimation of EIG future plans

There're over half hundred web hosting brands under EIG company and surely the number is increasing every after some periods. We're not sure why this company be able to keep up the excellent services under some hosting brands like Ipage and Fatcow but failed to do so from most other ones.

After some comparison we found as long as the previous hosting company is a pure unix/linux service provider then there will be no much turbulance after acquisition, but if it's a windows based hosting service, everything will get messed up. After checking from internet and their customer feedbacks, most of their complaints are from windows hosting clients. We get the simple conclusion, EIG is only good at linux technologies but failed to offer windows hosting service. that's why many well-know hosting brands got destroyed after merged to this company.

Their purchase of other hosting will never stop, as long as you're dealing with a windows hosting service you should prepare to find a new host if your current service provider is not really strong enough.

Who to choose beyond EIG brands?

Looking at the hosting industry you will find that new hosting names are born every day but big hosting companies are less and less. To avoid the stories of many people who dealed with EIG, you really should select your web hosting provider from the TOP list, at least eig will pay more attentions when the host is finally got sold. Who they're? Arvixe and Hostgator are our top recommended TOP webhosts.

If you're looking for reliable and stable asp.net hosting provider, go with arvixe without hesitation, if you're looking for reliable linux hosting provider, always go with hostgator. Arvixe and Hostgator are the best webhosts till present. I can say they're still the best in the future 5 years.

Visit www.Arvixe.com to check hosting plans. Read this page about arvixe 30% Off coupon!

WebhostingPad Coupon

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Webhostingpad Coupon Review

webhostingpad hosting plan already as cheap as $1.99/mon if you order 5 years. But we'll share a webhostingpad coupon which will save you another $25 with any webhostingpad hosting plan registrationg.

How to use this webhostingpad coupon?

It's quite simple to use this $25 off webhostingpad coupon, here're the steps:

1. go to webhostingpad and click signup now button.

2. proceed to step2 where asking for payment details.

3. fill into "TWHR25" as the coupon code and the $25 discount will be applied immediately. screenshot as following

webhostingpad coupon

Now you have claimed the webhostingpad $25 off coupon. But inorder to get the lowest price $1.99 from webhostingpad you have to order 5 years which is relatively long to most people, if you don't like that long period, there's another $36 off secret link available. please follow the steps below to claim the special offer.

1. go to webhostingpad and click signup now button.

2. proceed to step2 order page and press back icon from your explorer.

3. a prompt up window will be displayed for $36 off special offer link

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Here's the screenshot of the exact discount offer

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Go to www.WebhostingPad.com for most affordable plans!

More about Webhostingpad Hosting

WebHostingPad – a divison of Omnis networks, was formed in 2005. webhostingpad comes with various web hosting features and affordable web hosting plan, the company set out to deliver the best web hosting at a price where everyone can afford to have their piece of the world wide web. webhostingpad is also rated as top 10 by many web hosting review communities.

WebHostingPad offers excellent customer support and very standard cpanel hosting plans that come with lots of good deals. They aimed to provide the best web hosting service with lowest price. They understand you should not overpay your hosting service for something you don't need. Webhostinghub just offer what you needed with money saving on every points. Some outstanding features from webhostingpad include

  • Free Domain Name
  • Unlimited domain hosting
  • 99.9% uptime guarantee
  • Softaculous auto installer
  • Free site builder
  • $200 credit for Google Adwords, Bing and Yahoo

Webhostingpad knowledgeable support team usually resolve common problems within an hour. If you are looking long term partnership with their hosting. Give them a try and claim the $1.99 best price. You will not be disappointed with their great service!