Joomla or Mambo?

[Fernis]

I am considering using a CMS and can't decide between these two.

From what I can tell they look pretty similar.

Would you guys please post your experiences with either and what makes one better than the other.

[Guerrero]

Joomla is developed by the original/old developers of mambo.
mambo seems to be in troubles at least in order to license.
Joomla first version is the last mambo version, and updating from these.

is difficult to know the future. at least Joomla deserve some support in starting.

anyway hostgator fantastico doesn't support Jomla, only Mambo.

http://help.joomla.org

[Serra]

Personally, I don't like either of them, but I'd go with Mambo on an HG system. It would be easier to install and seems to work fine.

[Guerrero]

I think the problem is credibility in the future.
Joomla really is the duplicate of Mambo, and after the first dup it will have a different jurney.

Serra. What is your cms preference?

[quietFinn]

Most of the original devepers of Mambo, as well as most third party component developers, have moved to Mambo. I did the same.

For me it doesn't matter if Joomla isn't in the fantastico. And for my clients... if they want Joomla I install it for them... for free.

[LadyLarke]

Joomla is currently the same as Mambo. Basically Joomla is a branch of Mambo where 2 factions of developers have split apart. Joomla is just as highly supported as Mambo.

Mambo is going the way of $$$ and will eventually require a paid license. Joomla is more open source minded.

Right now you will see just as many add ons and modules available in Joomla as there was in Mambo. I have converted all my Mambo sites to Joomla flawlessly. Joomla is my CMS of choice.

[David]

Originally Posted by LadyLarke

I have converted all my Mambo sites to Joomla flawlessly. Joomla is my CMS of choice.

If you don't mind sharing, I'd like to take a quick look at some of your Joomla conversions

David

[David]

Originally Posted by Guerrero

anyway hostgator fantastico doesn't support Jomla, only Mambo.

http://help.joomla.org

The fantastico on your server must not be up to date. I did an auto install for a site last week on my server of Joomla 1.0.4

David

[Guerrero]

Originally Posted by David

The fantastico on your server must not be up to date. I did an auto install for a site last week on my server of Joomla 1.0.4

David

How can know if fantastico is up to date?
how can upgrade?
can be made from whm or I need go to the panel in each domain?

[David]

I believe the way it is set right now that to do auto installs via Fantastico you need to login directly to the cpanel account that you want to install from and not from the whm root login. We had an issue a few weeks ago where this wasn't working, and they ended up setting it that way, but that may just be on my server, not sure. Try going to www.domain.com/cpanel and see if you can auto install it that way. I don't think it would show any different though regardless of how you got in (cpanel or whm).

Attached is what the top categories look like in fantastico on my server:

Originally Posted by Guerrero

How can know if fantastico is up to date?
how can upgrade?
can be made from whm or I need go to the panel in each domain?

If it is not up to date just email support@hostgator.com and we will take care of that.

[justG]

Joomla. The Mambo team has yet to prove itself. From what I read on both company web sites, the Joomla team consists of the folks who made Mambo what it is today. If I had to trust someone moving forward, it'd be them. As for ease of installation and simplicity of configuration, as someone stated, the earliest version of Joomla is the latest version of Mambo (that may not be entirely accurate anymore if Mambo's had updates released since Joomla split), so anyone familiar with one should be able to hit the ground running with the other.

[Guerrero]

Originally Posted by GatorJay

If it is not up to date just email support@hostgator.com and we will take care of that.

would be grat if I would order this to all my domains into an WHM...

[cjnoyes]

I had read some issues that suggest that Mambo and Joomla have performance problems on HG systems and could get an account shut down, does anyone know if this is true?

Second, One of the good things about Joomla, is that it is more compatible with PHP5 than Mambo, I was testing both on a Win server with PHP5, and ran into serious bugs on PHP5 which the Mambo people said they didn't support, but Joomla ran well on PHP5 without any changes

[quietFinn]

Originally Posted by cjnoyes

I had read some issues that suggest that Mambo and Joomla have performance problems on HG systems and could get an account shut down, does anyone know if this is true?

I haven't heard anything like that, I run several Joomla sites and haven't had any performance problems with them.

[gdwoods]

I run 2 joomla and 2 Mambo sites and haven't had any problems...