Thứ Bảy, 9 tháng 7, 2011

Finding Good Host For Drupal

By Mickey Dacevski


Currently Drupal is one of the best CMS(Content Management System) that can be found on the net. With time many modules have been created for drupal and they all can be downloaded at Drupal's main site.

Shared web hosting is a good choice for those who are new to Drupal and are still learning and testing their skills. 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.

Before starting any site in Drupal be sure that you have found the best web host that will suite your needs. After you are finished configuring your site, having to move from one host to another is very time consuming task. If your site is media rich, when moving from the old host to the new one you will have to move a lot of support files. This is time consuming job. Very often after you have finished moving the files something will not work like it's suppose to be. If your website earns revenue then your business will be effected.

Factors to consider when choosing a web host include:

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 plan to install more then one web site that you should get plan with unlimited number of domains.

4. Limit of databases - if you have lots of domains will need a similar amount of databases. Consider that many Drupal websites have many database per website.

5. Disk Storage - Is enough storage provided to deal with your current website? 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. If you update a module or theme in the installation each of the websites running on the installation will benefit from the update. 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 package will sit with other accounts on the server and share the resources. This way the price form hosting is much more lower then dedicated hosting. The disadvantage is that the other peoples sites will disturb the performance of your site. As a general rule you can comfortably run Drupal websites expecting 1,000 unique visitors per day. If your Drupal website enjoys more than this many readers, then you should consider dedicated or VPS hosting.




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