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How are you different from any other hosting company?

Good question! First thing is "support". I understand what a website means to a small business and that you can't afford to have problems - excuses don't cut it! We check email automatically, every ten minutes. Most times, I can respond to an issue within fifteen or twenty minutes from the time a customer emails me.

But let's back up a moment - the few support emails I get are rarely about a server problem. I'm usually online programming on this server, so if there's any trouble, I'll probably know before you do. What's more, I don't like problems, so I've choosen my hardware people very carefully, because frankly, I don't want to even have to think about server problems!

Support questions I get are usually about a programming issue or Joomla question. Most were about moving to our server and setting things up, so we just decided to do that for free for customers. This includes not only your web pages and images, etc. but also your database, setting up your email and ftp accounts, etc.

Of course, we can't be answering PHP/MySQL or Joomla programming questions for free all day, so we offer paid support for those who need it from $25/mo.

Jooma? I keep hearing about Joomla - just what is it and what can it do for me?

Joomla is like having the world's greatest web designer and web developer working for you for free! Joomla is a content management system. That means, it is a way to have a website that you can build, update and maintain yourself, without having to have any specialized knowledge or web tools!

There are thousands of free design templates to choose from - click your mouse a few times and "Presto"! you have a brand-new, beautiful web design that would have cost hundreds of dollars if you'd hired a web designer.

Your website will not only look more professional, it will likely have more features and work better than if you paid a programmer/designer thousands of dollars! Even more importantly, it will probably bring in far more customers and more money than most web programmers could have gotten for you.

OKVideoProductions.com is producing a "Joomla for Dummies" video that will sell (here) for $29 and guaranteed to get you on the way to producing your own, fine website.

We have automatic Joomla installation for those who want Joomla and we'll even go one better and install it for you - all for FREE!

What would it cost to convert a small website (no database & under ten pages) into Joomla?

You could do this yourself and not pay anyone, but to have a small site like this professional converted (by us) would cost about $250, a five-page site might only cost $150.

I have a large, eCommerce, database-driven website. Will I be able to convert this easily into Joomla?

The answer is "Yes, and No." It will convert, but you'll want expert assistance. We just recently did such a conversion. Check it out - it's a beautiful site! It is built on Joomla, half a dozen Joomla extensions and VirtueMart. There are probably hundreds of web pages, over a hundred products, over a hundred recipes (in a separate component), custom image work for the template.

This Joomla conversion cost a thousand dollars, a few hundred for the custom graphic/design work and another thousand for the VirtueMart conversion and customization (and Americanization). But the site would probably have cost eight to ten thousand dollars if custom built to these specs and it is not only beautiful and flawless, it is totally user-maintainable!

What kind of websites can be built with Joomla?

Anything! You name it. Virtual stores, directory sites, absolutely anything and everything is possible with Joomla. There are so many extensions available for free, that you could probably build your entire site for free. If you do need some customization, we can handle it for you through CompuSolver.com, where you'll get a professional web / database developer who used to head up projects for Computer Science Corporation, and several state governments.

Additional Information -

Joomla is a CMS (content management system) that is on a par with the best commercial systems, yet it is free. With Joomla, you can maintain your own website - add new content (text, images, etc.), remove content, change content - all without any web coding know-how. That's right, now users have the power to run their own websites, and stay mostly independent of the web developers and even the web designers to whom they'd been writing frequent and large checks.

We offer automatic (and free) Joomla installation and will even install and setup Joomla for you - with it's built-in sample data and leave it to you to use its administrator pages to setup your website content, or you can let CompuSolver.com convert your current site (from $100) or build a new one for you. After it is initially setup, you should be able to handle everything yourself from then on. Check out our FREE Joomla templates and our Joomla Intro Video. We will install Joomla for you with any of these templates - at no charge!

SmBizHosting.com isn't the cheapest hosting service around. But if your business demands dependability; if you want to work with people who understand that you don't want to deal with server problems, a level of support where you get the owner's cell phone number - then you've come to the right place.

Forget about hosting & server worries, you've just found the right home for your websites!

Jean Ginchereau / Hank Castello
Owners / Managers
SmBizHosting.com