When hosting websites in our modern time it is nessesary to use a number of tools to secure and update our customers websites.
In addition to the webserver we install and update the following extentions and apps on each website.
All our websites are based on Joomla. Joomla is used by nearly 2 Millions websites. Of all business websites it is used by 9%.
Joomla! Essentials
- Multilingual: Over 70 languages can easy be installed with english as default.
- It comes out of the box with easy Search Engine Optimisation.
- Flexible: Make a blog, business website, intranet, community website… From the simplest to the most complex website.
- License: Free forever.
- To extend the functionality there are over 8,000 extensions available.
- User Management (ACL): ACL stands for Access Control List, it allows you to manage the users of your site, and different groups.
- Menu management: Create as many menus and menu items as you need.
- Cache management: Speed up your website with caching.
Here is a list of some of the apps and extentions we use on our customers websites:
(Alphabetic order) (Both paid and free apps and extentions)
Extentions:
- Akeeba backup - extention, free and payed license.
- All platform backups are retained for a maximum of 1 Month, Backups up to every 3 hours.
- cachecleaner - extention
- customcss - extention
- emailprotector - extention
- h1heading - extention
- JHackGuard - extention
- Maxmenu - extention
- RS Firewall - extention
- RS Forms - extention
- system_httpheader - extention
- JCE editor - extention
- JCH Optimize Pro - extention
Apps and online services:
- grademyemail(dot)co
- mysites(dot)guru - Manage All Your Joomla And WordPress Client Sites.
- pro-sitemaps(dot)com - manual free, automatic paid.
- PageSpeed Insights (Google) - free service from Google.
- sitecheck(dot)sucuri(dot)net - Free website security check & malware scanner.
- securityheaders(dot)com - free scanning security headers + rating
- SEMrush Position Tracking - free 10 search words/ praces
- uptimerobot(dot)com - free for 50 websites, checking uptime every 5 minutes.
