Integrating with other extensions and using quality templates is just one piece of the puzzle for a great site. Finding great services and tools that you trust is also important to maintain a stable website. Here is a list of services and products that will help.
Sendy is a self-hosted newsletter solution that lets you send email 100x cheaper than cloud solutions like MailChimp or Constant Contact. Sendy has a 1-time price of $59 for the software and then you use Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) to send each email for $1 / 10,000 emails. We moved to using Sendy for our newsletters, and instead of paying almost $200 per month, as we previously were, we now spend under $10. SourceCoast provides a free Sendy integration extension for Joomla. |
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SiteGround hosting offers super fast shared hosting with plans starting at around $5/month. They primarily focus on hosting for Joomla, Magento and Wordpress based sites and have servers optimized for sites using these CMS's. As a bonus, all Joomla sites hosted with them come with a free version of sh404SEF Lite! SiteGround is also very involved in the Joomla community and sponsor multiple Joomla Days and other events around the globe. |
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WiredTree is who we choose to host SourceCoast.com. They have great prices on high-powered servers with an excellent SLA agreement (meaning no downtime). They are also a fully managed service provider, which means you don't have to administer anything. Submit a ticket and have PHP upgraded.. in minutes! It makes running a website fun instead of a chore. |