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When discussing content management systems (CMS), Joomla and WordPress are two of the most popular platforms globally. Each provides a range of powerful features, user-friendly interfaces, and significant customization capabilities; however, they serve distinct user demographics and project requirements. Selecting the appropriate CMS for your website is crucial to its overall success.
In this article, we will analyze Joomla and WordPress based on various criteria, including functionality, user-friendliness, flexibility, search engine optimization (SEO), security, and additional factors, to assist you in identifying the platform that best aligns with your needs.
WordPress was designed to be simpler and easy to operate. It is easy to install WordPress, and the setup and management of WordPress are also effortless. Because of this visual editor of WordPress known as Gutenberg, users without prior coding knowledge can easily develop and publish content. As a result, WordPress is the first choice for bloggers, small business owners, and people wanting to establish any site quickly.
On the other hand, Joomla can be more flexible and give you more control over your site, but this demands a greater learning curve. Although Joomla is still quite user-friendly, it gives way to more advanced options right out of the box. At the same time, it supports multiple languages and has built-in SEO tools. Besides, Joomla will do so for those users who need more advanced customization options and are ready to invest time into mastering them.
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But arguably the most significant positive feature of WordPress is its extensive ecosystem when it comes to plugins and themes. There are over 60,000 free plugins available for instant installation, which offer functionality extensions to a website with just a couple of clicks: from e-commerce solutions to SEO tools, almost any need for a website has some form of WordPress plugin option available.
With WordPress, there are thousands of free and premium themes that allow users to completely revamp the look and feel of their site without having to touch one line of code.
Joomla too offers a myriad of extensions and templates, but another fundamental difference is that Joomla comes with a great deal of functionality out of the box. Advanced capabilities of Joomla's core range over user management, multilingual support, and SEO tools without seeking any other help of additional extensions.
If you need something really special, a more functional Joomla website, then maybe you should take a closer look at the premium Joomla templates and components available on JoomlArt.
WordPress is SEO-friendly with a great number of SEO plugins available, such as Yoast SEO and All in One SEO Pack. These plugins ease the process of optimizing your content for search engines, so you should only care about keywords, meta descriptions, and XML sitemaps, without wasting much time with technical SEO. Let's now see how Joomla does it. Joomla: Built-In SEO Features
But all the same, what separates it is that it does have inbuilt SEO tools right out of the box. One can manage meta descriptions, keywords, and URL structures with ease, and no need for extra plugin installation in Joomla.
WordPress is secure, but while it is the most popular CMS, it is the most targeted by hackers. Most of the vulnerabilities in WordPress come from outdated plugins and themes. To counter this, WordPress has regular updates, and many security plugins can be installed to improve your security further. However, users must update all plugins and themes regularly to avoid risks.
Joomla provides options for advanced security. It incorporates two-step authentication and extensive access control levels. Joomla's core system is very secure and also because it includes more out of the box, it relies less on third-party extensions, which is a security risk.
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By its size, WordPress hosts one of the largest and most active communities in the CMS space. That of course means that there are thousands of tutorials, forums, and online courses to assist one in getting help on their website.
Smaller than WordPress, Joomla's community is active and passionate, which is great for everybody. It has a strong developer community; from official forums, user groups, and documentation, users can always find help. If you are a developer working with more complicated projects, Joomla's community will feel like home.
Both WordPress and Joomla have loads of performance optimization possibilities. Both systems can run fast and efficiently with good hosting and a well-optimized template. Again, the slight edge for Joomla comes in because of its built-in caching and performance settings, but WordPress will easily do the same with the right plugins and hosting.
WordPress is great for those just starting, who want to get their blog or simple website up and running as quickly as possible. Its ease, plus the vast library of plugins available, makes it an ideal starting point for small websites, blogs, or businesses.
However, if you are working on a more complex project, need advanced features out-of-the-box, or generally want more control with customization and SEO for your site, Joomla's your way. Joomla is really good for businesses, e-commerce, and multilingual websites since it gives much more flexibility.
In the end, Joomla and WordPress are both terrific CMS sites and each has its original features to offer. Which one is better will solely depend upon which one works better for your project. Want more Joomla tips and tools? Head over to JoomlArt.
If you’ve ever watched a production service crumble under a flood of malicious traffic, you know two truths: (1) downtime is brutal, and (2) on-box firewalls aren’t enough. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks overwhelm links and edge devices long before traffic reaches your app.
Remote DDoS protection solves this by moving the fight off your network and into a dedicated mitigation platform that scrubs traffic and forwards only the clean packets back to you. In this guide, you’ll learn how remote DDoS protection works, when you should use it, how to deploy it step-by-step, and how Evolution Host’s Remote DDoS Protection can slot neatly into your stack.
Remote (a.k.a. out-of-path) DDoS protection is a network-level shield that sits outside your infrastructure. Instead of trying to filter attacks locally, you route your traffic through a scrubbing network that:
Receives your inbound traffic first (via BGP/Anycast or policy-based routing).
Identifies & mitigates attack traffic using global telemetry and layered defenses (L3/4 filtering, rate limiting, behavioral models, signatures).
Forwards clean traffic to your origin through an encrypted GRE tunnel or private interconnect.
Optionally returns outbound traffic the shortest way out (asymmetric routing) or back through the tunnel (symmetric).
Link shield: Your last-mile bandwidth never sees the attack volume.
Purpose-built hardware: Specialized filters and silicon handle PPS/Gbps you can’t match in-house.
Global edges: Anycast and regional scrubbing cut latency during normal traffic and during attacks.
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Approach |
Strengths |
Gaps |
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On-prem firewall/ACLs |
Immediate control, no third party |
Can’t stop link saturation; limited capacity |
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CDN/WAF in front of HTTP |
Great for Layer-7 web attacks |
Doesn’t help non-HTTP (VoIP, game servers, TCP services) |
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Remote DDoS protection |
Protects all protocols, shields links, elastic capacity |
Requires routing integration (BGP/GRE), basic networking know-how |
Bottom line: If you run UDP services (VoIP, game servers), custom TCP protocols, or anything where raw bandwidth and packets matter, remote protection is the pragmatic path.
A common, proven pattern looks like this:
Internet ── Scrubbing POPs (Anycast)
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Clean Traffic over GRE/IPsec
│
Your Edge Router
│
Private LAN
Anycast/BGP announcement: The provider advertises your protected IP prefixes globally. Attackers hit the provider’s edges, not yours.
Mitigation pipeline: Packet filters, stateless/stateful engines, heuristics, and rate shapers remove floods (volumetric UDP, SYN, ACK, amplification, carpet bombing, etc.).
GRE tunnel: A lightweight, widely-supported encapsulation that carries clean packets to your router. Optionally pair with IPsec for encryption.
Return path: Either NAT your egress through the provider (for symmetry) or let replies go out locally.
Consider moving to remote protection if you have any of the following:
Repeated volumetric attacks that saturate your uplink (> your ISP’s burst).
Protocol-agnostic services (game servers, VPN, RDP gateways, custom TCP/UDP).
Strict SLAs with monetary penalties for downtime.
Limited on-prem capacity or complex multi-site environments.
Evolution Host offers a remote filtering layer designed for networks that need always-on mitigation without moving their infrastructure. At a high level, it provides:
Anycast scrubbing that absorbs floods before they touch your circuits.
Layer 3/4 protection for TCP/UDP services (game, VoIP, VPN, custom ports), with targeted rules for popular attack patterns.
GRE tunnel delivery of clean traffic to your network.
Simple onboarding: announce your IPs with them and set up a tunnel—no app changes required.
24/7 monitoring & alerting so you can see and verify mitigation events.
(If you’re currently running servers with Evolution Host, integrating remote protection is even simpler; if you’re elsewhere, you can still use it to protect your existing IP space.)
IP ranges (single IPs or full /32, /31, /30 … up to your routed prefix).
Protocols and ports (HTTP/S, game ports, VoIP, SSH, RDP, VPN, custom).
Traffic patterns (peak Gbps/PPS, geo distribution, normal baseline).
Anycast BGP + GRE (recommended): Evolution Host advertises your protected IPs; they receive all inbound traffic and forward clean packets over GRE to you.
Policy-based routing: Point only certain flows/routes to the scrubbing network (useful for staged rollouts).
Tip: For production, favor always-on BGP advertisement over on-demand. Always-on avoids failover delays when an attack starts.
Ensure your router/firewall supports GRE (almost all do).
Confirm you can add static routes for the protected subnets through the GRE interface.
Reserve public IPs for tunnel endpoints (your side ↔ Evolution Host side).
Share with Evolution Host:
Your protected prefixes/IPs and origin ranges.
Tunnel endpoint (your public IP) and preferred MTU.
Whether you need symmetric routing (both directions via tunnel) or asymmetric (inbound via tunnel, outbound via your ISP).
They’ll provide:
Their tunnel endpoint IP and BGP/route parameters (if applicable).
Optional health-check and origin verification settings.
Linux (example)
# Variables
REMOTE=203.0.113.10 # Evolution Host GRE endpoint
LOCAL=198.51.100.20 # Your public endpoint
TUN=tun0
TUN_IP=10.0.0.2/30 # /30 for point-to-point
PEER_TUN_IP=10.0.0.1
# Create tunnel
ip tunnel add $TUN mode gre local $LOCAL remote $REMOTE ttl 255
ip addr add $TUN_IP dev $TUN
ip link set $TUN mtu 1476 up # adjust for overhead
ip route add0.0.0.0/0 dev $TUN table 200 # optional policy table
# Route the protected /32 or prefix back to the tunnel
ip route add203.0.113.200/32 via $PEER_TUN_IP dev $TUN
Edge router (generic)
Create GRE interface to provider endpoint
Set tunnel MTU (start with 1476 for GRE; adjust after testing)
Add static routes:
To you: Your protected IP/prefix is locally hosted as normal.
To provider: Return path for clean traffic (usually a route to their tunnel IP).
If you want symmetric egress (replies out through the tunnel), SNAT/NAT your responses to the protected IP and set a policy route that prefers the GRE interface for that source.
If they’re announcing your prefix, no DNS changes are needed. Traffic will naturally arrive at the provider first.
If you’re only protecting a single service, you can point a DNS A/AAAA record to the protected IP managed through the scrubbing network.
Connectivity: Ping/traceroute your protected IP. Verify it hairpins through the tunnel.
MTU/PMTUD: Test large uploads. If you see fragmentation or stalls, lower tunnel MTU (e.g., 1460) and enable MSS clamping on your edge.
Health checks: Ensure the provider only forwards traffic when your origin is healthy.
Logging: Export NetFlow/sFlow from your edge; correlate with Evolution Host’s attack logs.
Define a clean baseline
Collect 7–14 days of normal PPS/Gbps per port. Baselines make detections faster and thresholds saner.
Segment by service
If possible, map different services to distinct IPs. It allows granular filtering (e.g., stricter UDP rules on game ports without affecting HTTPS).
MSS clamping & MTU sanity
With GRE, set TCP MSS to (MTU - 40) to avoid black-holed large packets.
Prefer stateless filters for volumetric bursts
Let the provider’s stateless/line-rate filters blunt the initial PPS burst; stateful rules can follow once stabilized.
Maintain out-of-band access
Keep management out-of-band (VPN on separate IP/range) so you can still reach devices during an event.
Drill your runbooks
Simulate: “UDP flood on :27015,” “SYN flood on :443,” “carpet bombing across /24.” Practice the toggle points and verification steps.
Track these metrics:
Ingress vs. clean egress (provider portal export): attack magnitude, dropped PPS, allowed PPS.
Tunnel health: up/down state, latency to provider edge, packet loss.
Application KPIs: request rate, error rate, tail latency, disconnects.
False positives: look for unusual protocol blocks or geo anomalies.
During an incident, annotate timelines: attack start → mitigation engaged → steady state → resolution. This helps with RCA and SLA reviews.
Predictability beats pennies. Always-on plans reduce toil and flap.
Avoid single-points of failure. If you can, build two GRE tunnels to different POPs and set ECMP or primary/backup routing.
Keep configs portable. Treat your tunnel/router config as code (Git, change control, rollback).
Inventory services, ports, IPs, and peak PPS/Gbps
Choose routing model (Anycast+BGP recommended)
Confirm GRE support and capacity on your edge
Exchange tunnel endpoints and IP/prefix details
Build and test GRE (latency, MTU/MSS, failover)
Enable health checks / origin verification
Go live with always-on advertisement
Monitor baselines and tune thresholds
Document incident playbooks & contacts
Symptom: Users time out on large uploads
Fix: Reduce tunnel MTU; enable TCP MSS clamping (e.g., 1360–1460).
Symptom: Random disconnects on UDP services (games/VoIP)
Fix: Confirm provider’s UDP timeouts; request a longer session window.
Symptom: Asymmetric routing breaks stateful firewall
Fix: Either enable state bypass for protected flows or use symmetric (in+out) via tunnel.
Symptom: GRE up, but no return traffic
Fix: Ensure reverse route for your protected prefix via the tunnel and check policy routing/NAT.
Q: Do I need to move my servers to Evolution Host to use remote protection?
A: No. Remote protection is designed to shield external infrastructure. You keep your servers where they are; traffic simply gets scrubbed first.
Q: Will this protect non-HTTP services like game servers or VoIP?
A: Yes. Remote protection is protocol-agnostic at L3/L4. You can protect custom TCP/UDP ports alongside web services.
Q: What about latency during normal operation?
A: With Anycast, traffic typically enters the nearest scrubbing POP and then traverses a backbone to your tunnel. For most regions the added latency is modest—measure it during staging and choose POPs accordingly.
Q: Can I use it only during attacks?
A: On-demand is possible, but always-on removes the failover gap when the attack starts and offers the most consistent performance.
Q: Will encryption work across the tunnel?
A: Yes. GRE carries your packets unchanged; TLS/VPN traffic is unaffected. If you need encryption at the network layer, pair GRE with IPsec.
Rapid onboarding: Clear tunnel setup and routing guidance; sane defaults that work out of the box.
Real-world playbooks for UDP: Tuned profiles for game and VoIP traffic (where volumetric floods are common).
Transparent reporting: Visibility into mitigation events so you can verify effectiveness and satisfy stakeholders.
24/7 expertise: Humans who understand packet-level attacks and will help you tune policies, not just flip canned switches.
List the IPs and services you want protected.
Ask Evolution Host for a remote protection plan sized to your peak PPS/Gbps.
Build the GRE tunnel, test MTU/MSS, and run a controlled cutover.
Monitor, tune, and relax—your link isn’t the battleground anymore.
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If you're managing your website on Joomla, you know Joomla! 5 was released with new features. Is it necessary to upgrade from Joomla! 4 if you're using our templates and how to do that? Let's explore!
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A major update for 60+ templates on Gavick.com and Shape5.com is here. Our team has been hard at work to ensure that these templates are fully compatible with the latest Joomla versions: Joomla 5.1 and Joomla 4.4.4
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