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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Finding Good Host For Drupal

By Kelly Mellon


Drupal is quickly becoming one of the most unbelievable CMS' available today. Drupal has evolved with time and now has many features that other CMS don't.

Choosing a cheap Drupal host is a great idea for people who are testing Drupal for the first time, or who want to run a number of small visitor websites. Lately there are web hosts that are offering very cheap shared hosting. But the problem with shared hosting is that you will be very restricted with bandwidth, space and databases.

Choosing the best web hosting for your Drupal websites is an important choice to make from the start. After you are finished configuring your site, having to move from one host to another is very time consuming task. If your website is media rich you will have lots of support files that need to be moved from the old web host to the new web host. This takes plenty of time. Is very common when you finish moving your site something is not working after you have finished moving your files. If you are making money from your site you will earn nothing while your site is down.

You should consider some facts before choosing any web host:

1. Bandwidth - If you hope your websites to grow in visitor numbers dramatically you should select an package that allows unlimited traffic. If you get over your limit you site will be suspended for that month of you will be charged extra money.

2. Price - You need to find cheap hosting for very low price. US$5 each month is considered cheap.

3. Limit of domains - how many domains does the package allow per account? If you have lots of websites on your account you should get an package with unlimited domains.

4. number of databases - if you plan to install many sites you will need database for almost every site that you plan to install. Consider that every new Drupal site will need separate database.

5. Disk Space - How much space will you get with the plan that you will purchase. Maybe you site is small now but will time will grow and will need more space. Will it be enough for the future of the web site? Expect to get unlimited disk space, which in effect equals 1,000 GB, gigabytes of storage.

One of the best features with Drupal is that you can run many sites from just one Drupal installation. This is very useful if you plan to run many web sites from one single account. This way when you update one module or theme automatically is updated for all of your sites. This makes the maintenance of the installation less time consuming. Even the cheap hosting hosts allow you to run multiple websites from a single account.

All cheap Drupal hosting hosts will configure their hosting on shared computers. These shared servers run multiple accounts on a single computer. Your site will sit together will many other account that have purchased shared hosting too. They will share the same resources. This way the price form hosting is much more lower then dedicated hosting. The down side is that other peoples websites on the server will disrupt the performance of your account. As a general rule you can comfortably run Drupal websites expecting 1,000 unique visitors per day. If your site will have more visitors that this number then the best thing for you is to buy dedicated server.




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