The Joomla engine is convenient that it is easily installed on a hosting and has Russian-language versions. However not any hosting as for work of Joomla the MySQL databases and a certain volume of disk space are required is suitable for this engine.
When choosing a hosting for the website made on CMS Joomla it is necessary to be guided by system requirements of this content management system. The server is necessary for the Joomla installation therefore this system works only at hostings with the PHP support of the version not lower than 5.2.4 and MySQL of the version not lower than 5.0.4.
Whether there is a free hosting to the PHP and MySQL support?
Yes, happens. However it has a number of shortcomings. First, the provider with high probability will not give you any guarantees that your website will steadily work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Secondly, free of charge providers provide limited disk space. Therefore if your website will develop and be filled with volume content (a photo or video), then there will last free limit of disk space only for several months.
The free hosting perfectly will be suitable only for the small and noncommercial websites. Also it can use if you want to learn to install and configure Joomla.
One more lack of the majority of free hostings is the lack of an opportunity to use the domain. Usually hosters provide the domain names without an opportunity to change them.
How to select a hosting?
The choice of free hostings on which it is possible to install CMS Joomla, quite big. Conditions of providing free disk space at all companies the. For example, someone will post advertizing banners on your website, and someone blocks the websites on which during certain time there were no visits.
As for convenience and reliability of a hosting, it is very important to select a hosting with a sufficient volume of disk space, and otherwise you will not be able fully to use all opportunities of Joomla. And though the engine occupies no more than 20 megabytes, it is necessary to consider that on it the template will be installed, and on the ready website different materials will be added. Besides you, most likely, will install additional functional plug-ins and scripts. Therefore the website at the initial stage of the development can occupy 50 megabytes and more. Considering that it is always necessary to have a stock of disk space, it is necessary to select a hosting where not less than 100 megabytes will be provided to you.
The quite good hosting can be found at foreign providers. Many foreign companies are ready to offer the user of a free rate on average one gigabyte of disk space. However the interface of your account will be in English that is not always convenient, especially if you not really well understand administration of the websites.