What's Drupal?
Drupal is one of the best content
management system. It's a free software package that allows an individual or a
community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of
content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using it
to power scores of different web sites, such as: Community web portals,
Discussion sites, E-commerce applications and more.
Linux Platform with support for 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.
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. There are many tasks need to run regularly. A permission
to change the Cron file will be very helpful for the Drupal webmasters
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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 an CMS web site, nothing can be more
important than a stable environment.