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Below we are going to present some of the finest joomla email and marketing extensions that will help you organize and promote your product website.

1. Aweber email marketing software for Joomla.

Download Jomlink component for Joomla for Aweber email marketing services.

Description:

Jomlink is the bridging component between your Joomla website and your Aweber account.
After installation it will automatically register under Aweber every new user signup that takes place on your website.

Aweber General Features:

• Aweber's Powerful Email Marketing helps you boost your business benefits.
• Instant, Ready-to-use Email Marketing in just a few clicks.
• Create visually striking and eye-catching HTML newsletters from readily available templates.
• Top-Notch, 99% deliverability of your email messages and auto responders.
• Manage and analyze your Emailing Campaigns with Web Analytics tool of Aweber.
• Create, Manage and Utilize the Auto Responders.
• Create and Format Newsletter Sign Up Forms.
• Built-In spam checking.
• Follow Up on email responders.

Joomla 1.5.x has reach end of life long time ago but that doesn't mean its not used by thousands of websites around the world.
My experience tells that many of those websites are using buggy Joomla 1.5.xx versions making them vulnerable to attacks and exploits. Thats is why I 've decided to gather all the latest upgrade packages* from Joomla 1.5.22 to 1.5.25 and post them here in order to make them accessible by everybody.
Another serious reason to upgrade into the latest version of Joomla 1.5.25 is making migration task from 1.5.xx to 1.6.x a lot easier, that said I urge you to download and upload each package, once at a time, in order to upgrade your Joomla website into the latest 1.5.xx version of 1.5.25.

• 1.5.22 to 1.5.23 upgrade package
• 1.5.23 to 1.5.24 upgrade package
• 1.5.24 to 1.5.25 upgrade package

Upgrade Instructions:

1. Backup your Joomla website and db.
2. Download each upgrade package starting from 1.5.22 to 1.5.23
3. Extract zip file on your pc.
4. Upload all files using an ftp client such us Filezilla.
   
   Follow this procedure for each upgrade package until you reach the last one, when finished log into back end and make sure that latest version is referred in up right position of your tab.

* If you visit Joomla's official repository page then you won't be able to find those upgrade packages unless you run a specific query about them individually.

Hosting a Joomla website is not the hardest to do IF you find the right web hosting company to work with.
Many of us are looking for the cheapest hosting solution in order to save money but we shouldn't forget how much money and time will be lost if the only advantage of the hosting company we choose is just being cheap.

Server downtime and incompatibility with Joomla CMS are the top 2 reasons dropping our hosting provider and looking for a another one more reliable and joomla friendly.

Moving websites from one hosting provider to another is not the easiest thing to do, no matter if you are a Joomla Pro that develops Joomla websites for his clients or just a webmaster.

Search engines and visitors hate downtimes and dns changes in a short period time so be careful and judge your future hosting provider not only by his price but also by his Joomla friendly hosting features.

To help you out I m going to post server features that can classify them as Joomla friendly for both Joomla 1.6.x/1.7.x and Joomla 1.5.x versions.

Joomla 1.6.x and 1.7.x server requirements:

PHP
- Recommended: 5.3+
- Minimum: 5.2.4+

MySQL
- Recommended: 5.0.4+
- Minimum: 5.0.4+

Apache(mod_mysql, mod_xml,and mod_zlib installed)
- Recommended: 2.x+
- Minimum: 2.x+

Joomla 1.5.x server requirements:

PHP
- Recommended: 5.2+
- Minimum: 4.3.10

MySQL
- Recommended: 4.1.x+
- Minimum: 3.23

Apache(mod_mysql, mod_xml,and mod_zlib installed)
- Recommended: 2.x+
- Minimum: 1.3

I ve already built my own list of Joomla Hosting providers that can host your joomla websites, check it out and bookmark it because I m going to post more of them as soon as possible.
This site here is also useful reviewing and listing Joomla hosting companies together with other articles on Joomla.