Joomla Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Joomla hosting for a website, publishing portal or multilingual digital experience, without wiring up a database, an install wizard or a certificate yourself. xCloud sets up Joomla CMS hosting in minutes: the pinned Joomla 6.1.3 image, a private MariaDB 11.8.3 service and the HTTPS reverse proxy, with the initial Joomla installation completed from the administrator details you provide at checkout.

Deploy your Joomla

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What is Joomla?

Joomla is a free, open-source content management system that lets you build websites and online applications. Run on your own server, it is a self-hosted Joomla CMS and the alternative to a hosted site builder such as Wix. It needs PHP and either MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL, is known for multilingual websites and an extensions directory, and is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

On xCloud it is deployed as two services: the joomla:6.1.3-php8.3-apache image and a private MariaDB 11.8.3 container, both pinned by immutable digest. The joomla_data and joomla_db volumes hold the site files and the database, Joomla's own installer runs from your administrator details, and MariaDB publishes no port. You sign in at /administrator/ with the credentials you set.

From Sign-Up to a Live Joomla Site In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Joomla normally means a container, a database, an install wizard, a domain and a certificate before a single page is published. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Joomla from the OneClick catalog. Set a domain, site name and administrator name, username, email and password.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the joomla:6.1.3-php8.3-apache image and MariaDB 11.8.3, both pinned by immutable digest, generate isolated database credentials, mount the persistent volumes, complete Joomla's own installer, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Publish
Open /administrator/ and sign in with the administrator credentials xCloud shows you. Create and publish an article, then confirm both the public page and the administrator record survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything Joomla Does, On Your Own Server

Joomla runs in full here — articles, menus, users, media, templates and extensions, on infrastructure you control.

Full Content Management
Publish articles, build menus, manage users and organize media from Joomla's own administrator interface.
Multilingual Publishing
Build multilingual content and publishing experiences using Joomla's built-in language tools.
Templates And Extensions
Extend the site with Joomla's deep template and extension ecosystem, installed the same way as any Joomla instance.
Administrator Interface
Manage the entire site — content, users, settings — from the dedicated /administrator/ backend.
Private MariaDB Database
Articles, users and settings live in a MariaDB database that is never exposed to the public internet.
Two Volumes, Fully Persistent
Site files on joomla_data and the database on joomla_db both survive a restart, kept in sync as one unit.

Everything You Need To Run Your Content Publishing 24/7

Managed hosting for Joomla, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Joomla 6.1.3 deployed instantly
Image digests pinned, not floating
Administrator account created at install
Private MariaDB, not exposed to the internet
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Joomla

Run a Joomla multilingual website
Publish the same site in several languages from one administrator interface, with articles, menus and media managed in a single installation that you host and back up yourself.
Launch a publishing portal with many authors
Give editors accounts, organise articles under menus and keep every article, user and setting in the MariaDB database on joomla_db rather than on a rented site builder.
Extend the site with templates and extensions
Install templates and extensions from the administrator backend as on any Joomla site, with the added files kept on the persistent joomla_data volume.
Upgrade Joomla on your own schedule
Joomla 6.1.3 and MariaDB 11.8.3 stay pinned until you choose to move: review the upstream release notes, back up joomla_data and joomla_db together, and validate a restore before rolling the site forward.

Joomla vs Alternatives

Wix: A hosted website builder run by its provider; Joomla is open-source software you run yourself, so the site files and the database sit on volumes on your own xCloud server.
WordPress: Another general-purpose CMS with a large plugin ecosystem; Joomla pairs its extensions with built-in multilingual features and runs here with its own private MariaDB database.
Ghost: A publishing platform focused on posts, memberships and newsletters, deployed on xCloud with MySQL; Joomla covers general websites and portals with menus, users and extensions.
Drupal CMS: Another open-source content management system you can deploy on xCloud as its own OneClick app; compare its administrator and extensions with Joomla's multilingual tools and extensions directory before you choose.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Joomla hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More traffic, media and extensions on the same server.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Joomla alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Joomla itself is free under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Joomla on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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$3per server / month

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Publish On Your Own Joomla Site?

Joomla on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Can I run Joomla in Docker?

Yes, and this template is Joomla Docker hosting without the compose file: the joomla:6.1.3-php8.3-apache image plus a private mariadb:11.8.3 container, both pinned by digest, with joomla_data and joomla_db volumes and Joomla's installer run from your administrator details.

How much RAM does Joomla need?

The template manifest asks for 1536 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 10 GB of disk as a floor for Joomla and MariaDB together. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which leaves headroom for media, extensions and a growing database.

What are the requirements to run Joomla?

Upstream says Joomla needs a server with PHP and either MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL. This template supplies both: PHP 8.3 with Apache inside the Joomla image, and a private MariaDB 11.8.3 container, so you install nothing on the host yourself.

Is Joomla free?

Yes. Joomla is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later, so the CMS itself costs nothing. Your bill is the Cloud VPS that hosts the site, not the CMS. Extensions may have their own licences.

Does Joomla support multiple languages?

Yes. Joomla is known for building multilingual websites, and its template description lists multilingual content as a core use. You configure languages inside the administrator interface, and nothing about this deployment restricts which ones you add.

How do I add extensions to Joomla?

Sign in at /administrator/ and install templates and extensions from the backend, as on any Joomla site. Their files are written to the joomla_data volume, so they persist across restarts, and you should include that volume in every backup you take.

How do I update Joomla on this template?

Nothing updates itself: Joomla 6.1.3 and MariaDB 11.8.3 are pinned by digest, and a catalog re-sync only affects new installs. Read the upstream release notes, take a coordinated backup of joomla_data and joomla_db, and test a restore before moving an existing site.

How do I sign in to Joomla?

At /administrator/, with the administrator username and password you set at checkout, which the credentials panel also shows. Joomla requires an alphabetic username and a password of at least 13 characters, and xCloud can generate a 24-character password for you.

Does outbound email work out of the box?

No. This template configures no SMTP transport, so Joomla sends no real email until you set up an authenticated mail service in Global Configuration. Do that before you rely on any workflow that sends messages to users.

What should I back up for a Joomla site?

Both joomla_data and joomla_db, taken together. joomla_data holds the code, configuration, extensions, themes and uploaded media, while joomla_db holds articles, users, menus and settings. Restoring only one volume can leave files and database out of sync.

Backups in xCloud

Is this Joomla cloud hosting on my own server?

It is Joomla on a dedicated Cloud VPS that xCloud provisions, so you get Joomla cloud hosting with its own MariaDB, HTTPS and domain, and nothing is shared with other customers. You still own the content, extensions and upgrade decisions.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.