Joomla hosting, which is technically a content management system, is so popular because it is easy to use.  For the inexperienced website creator, Joomla is comprehensively intuitive and very easy to use.  As an example, non-programmers can enhance their experience by easily installing one or more of the multitude of available extensions that are explained step by step.  On the other hand, advanced users and programmers have the flexibility of using Joomla in just about any way they want to.  Citibank’s intranet, IHOP’s website, Quizilla.com and MTV’s social networking site are just a very few of the big names that use Joomla quite successfully.

In addition, Joomla is popular because it does very well for small to medium sized sites, has a standard GUI backend that’s well organized and looks good out of the box.  It takes a lot less time and learning to get Joomla up and running is easy as well.  Since there is such an easy learning curve with Joomla, it’s a reasonable bet that original sites can be manipulated and harnessed very easily.