Saturday, July 9, 2011

Finding Good Host For Drupal

By Mickey Dacevski


Drupal is in no time becoming one of the most fantastic CMS' available today. With time many modules have been created for drupal and they all can be downloaded at Drupal's main site.

Cheap shared web hosting is the perfect choice for those who are new to Drupal or want to set up a web site for their small business. 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 you have media rich site, you will have to move a lot of support files from the old host to the new one. This is time consuming job. It is common for something to not work after the move to a different web host. if you are earning revenue from your site, you will earn nothing while your site is not working.

There are some factors you need to consider before going online:

1. Bandwidth - if you have a lot of visitors to your site then you should chose plan with unlimited bandwidth. Costs are generally high if you go over your allowed limit.

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. Limit of databases - if you have lots of domains will need a similar amount of databases. 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.

Drupal has a multisite feature that will allow you to run multiple sites from one 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. The shared hosts run many hosting accounts on one single computer. Your site will sit together will many other account that have purchased shared hosting too. They will share the same resources. The good thing is that the price is kept low. 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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