Welcome to the Mambo hosting blog. The main objective of this blog is to discuss and share knowledge relating to web hosting for the popular Mambo open source content management system developed by the Mambo development community.

Mambo is one of the most popular open source content management systems on the net today offering a wide range of functionality ideal for both individuals who wish to setup a personal web site or small, medium sized companies who plan to migrated a static HTML web site to a dynamic PHP, MYsql driven content management solution like Mambo.

Once you have downloaded mambo from the offical mambo web site the question is where do you host mambo ?

With so many web hosting companies offers various hosting packaging it can be a difficult decision to make especially for the novice.

This blog is intended to provide you with a brief overview, guide to finding the ideal web solution for hosting mambo.

What is mambo

The free Mambo Open Source content management system ( CMS ) has revolutionized the way both indivudials, small businesses and large enterprise's manage there web site's on a daily basis.

Visit the offical mambo web site


Mambo is recognized as one of the most popular free open source content management systems on the internet today due to the following factors.


1) User friendly easy to use administrator and front end interface
2) Secure, Flexible, scaleable modular architecture
3) Wide range of open source and commercial modules
4) Open source - no licensing fees
5) Thriving support community
6) Wide range of plug-ins including shop's, forums, galleries and much more.


Basically Mambo enables you or your business to manage and maintain your website content with out the need for expensive specialized web development skills or paying someone to maintain your website content.


The administrator interface is very easy to use and is similar in some respects to a Microsoft word editor, you can add text, images and manage, publish your content with a click of a button.


Mambo has also won a wide range of industry awards for it's innovation in web development and currently boasts over 3 million downloads as more and more people realize the potential mambo has to offer.


Mambo Open Source Features


Completely database MYSQL driven site engine
News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
Fully customizable mambo template layouts including left, center and right menu boxes
Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results and much more
Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX
(SEF) search engine friendly system to ensure you get the highest search engine ranking position
Open source backend server architecture utilizing apache, MYsql, PHP


Extensive Administration


Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc. Random Newsflash generator
Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links
Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want
image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use
Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Mambo fix the link
News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world
Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article
In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad
User editable look and feel
Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site
Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds
Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
Banner manager. Make money out of your site

globat another one of the big companies on the net offer some great hosting packages which are ideal to host mambo. The packages offer a wide range of features including mysql,php plus generous disk space, bandwidth and good support, server up time.Globat also have a good track record for hosting web sites with over 50,000 customers worldwide.

Globat hosting packages currently offer the following

10000MB of disk space and 300GB bandwidth.
5000 email accounts and 30 days money back guarantee.
PHP,MySQL plus much more

globat

A popular mambo portal which offers advice, forums and news for mambo hosting is called the mambo hosting review

The mambo hosting review is designed offer the mambo open source community with practical advise and news plus forums relating to web hosting for mambo.

ipower hosting is one of the most popular web hosting companies on the net today with several years experience in the web hosting business.
Ipower offer a good value web hosting package which is great for mambo. Once you have signed up to ipower you can upload and install your mambo open source content management system in a matter of minutes.

IPowerWeb has been hosting websites since 1999 and we now have over 300,000 paying clients so they are pretty popular in the web hosting arena and worth considering if you want a low cost, professional web hosting company.

All the ipower hosting packages come with the following functionality

3 Gigs / 500 Emails
1 FREE Domain Name
SSL / CGI-BIN / MySQL
Unlimited Email Forwarding
Marketing / Content Package

ipower

Bluehost has being on the web hosting scene since 1996 and has a great hosting package which is ideally suited to mambo open source. Bluehost offers the following functionality with all its web hosting packages and you can easily setup mambo in a matter of minutes.

All Bluehost web hosting packages come with the following functionality

4GB of hosting space and 100 GB of bandwidth.
You will get a domain name free of charge
2500 POP3 web based emails
5 addon domains
FTP, PHP, CGI,
cPanel and a lot more features

Bluehost for mambo