sNews is a completely free, standards compliant, PHP and MySQL driven content management system. Consisting of only one small core file, sNews is extremely lightweight, easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. 

If you have Joomla (or non Joomla) site which is updated on daily basis then you probably encountered with the problem how to backup your files and database(s). Well using cron job option in your Cpanel is good idea. 

Perhapse you will never need this trick but it is very helpfull if you wish to style your frontpage with modules instead standard Joomla frontpage option. 

This module displays selected articles from your database. All you need to do is to enter id of article you wish to display. If you wish to display more than one article just separate id of articles by comma (",").