Why You Should Choose Joomla Over WordPress and Drupal

of each of the three to help you decide which one is the best-fit for your business website. In addition, I will enlighten you as per when you should choose Joomla over the other two CMS’s. Without further ado, below are the pros and cons of the three most popular CMS worldwide.

WordPress

Pros:

• Definitely the most user-friendly among the three.
• Offers free themes, plugins and support as well as paid ones.
• Building and website admin is relatively cheapest

Cons:

• Security is a big question.
• Considered by many as merely a blogging platform.
• It may be the cheapest to build but may not be the most cost-efficient due to security and maintenance issues.

Drupal

Pros:

• More sophisticated websites can be built using this CMS
• Contributors and developers are relatively highly skilled and highly technical.
• Virtually limitless.

Cons:

• The least user-friendly among the three. In fact, the most complex and requires highly technical professional to build and maintain the site.
• Due to the demand of highly skilled professionals to create and maintain the site, it demands the highest cost among the three.
• Caching is really a Band-Aid for the poor performance of Drupal, the dark side of having so much programmer power.

Joomla

Pros:

• Offers a good blend of user friendliness and security.
• Supports a number of RDBMS like MySQL, Microsoft SQL and PostgreSQL.
• You can build a seamlessly full-featured website with lesser complexity and relatively lower manpower/admin cost.

Cons:

• Not the most user-friendly among the three at the same time not the most sophisticated.
• Though it offers extendibility at a relatively lower cost, there are some extensions that are not compatible with each other in one way or another.
• The access control system has to be improved to become more stable to require less tweaking.

As you might have known already, Joomla is somewhat a middle player among the three. In terms of both ease of use and sophistication, Joomla has a good blend of both. So, if you are building a website on a budget and at the same time security is a must, then Joomla is the best choice! It offers the most cost-effective sophisticated features without sacrificing security. The Joomla community is also committed and working hard to make Joomla the best CMS worldwide.

Once you have decided to build a website on Joomla, the next thing you need to decide on is to where you will entrust your dearest Joomla site to be hosted. There are a lot of web hosting providers out there that promises a lot but will just take your bucks out of your pockets. But the good news is that there are a few that really offers great valued services for every penny you will spend. So, good luck in finding the right host.