Drupal Hosting Tutorials

Developed and maintained by an active community, Drupal is one of the open source content management system, which will allow you to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of individuals and companies, such as: Community web portal, blogs, E-commerce applications and more.

Determine Your Domain Name

First, you will need to select a domain for your Drupal web site, think about something that will make sense to your business and easy to be remembered.

Drupal Hosting Needs

Just like looking for a web hosting solution for all the other types of web site, you will need to think about your needs on disk space, monthly traffic, and emailox, etc. And in below, we will discuss about some key features are needed by a Drupal site.

A hosting environment with support to php, and MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Drupal is an application developed by php, and run against MySQL or PostgreSQL. So, a support for php with database MySQL or PostgreSQL is the basic requirement for it. And we would like to suggest a Linux web hosting package considering it is the perfect platform to run php and MySQL.

Besides above, in order to use "URL alias"(or "Clean URL") function, the Apache need to enable mod_rewrite module.

Easy to use Control Panel which will allow you to maintain Database, and conduct some routine maintenance tasks for your Drupal application

- An easy to use to tool to create MySQL or PostgreSQL database and grant the access.

- phpMyAdmin or phpPgAdmin to manipulate the data in the database, execute the backup or restore tasks to the data.

- An editor to modify the Cron job of the system. This is extremely important for a shared hosting as it's highly possible that you don't have shell access. As there are many tasks need to run regularly, a permission to change the Cron file will be very helpful for the Drupal webmasters.

- Privilege to change the access permission of the file and directory.

Very fast connection speed to the database. Many web hosting providers haven't optimized the connection speed between web server and database server, which cause Drupal run very slowly. This feature you will only know after installing Drupal in their environment.

Reliable web hosting service provider with courteous and professional customer support. As a web site, nothing can be more important than a stable environment.

In order to know the service of your provider, you can test it by sending an email to see how fast they can response. And you also can visit some web hosting review sites to see their customer review or professional editors reviews.