How to Pick the Right Host For Drupal Hosting

Drupal is considered to be one of the most well known Opensource Content Management Systems (CMS) in addition to WordPress and Joomla. That a basic CMS solution simplifies website design function giving a wide array of templates to choose from is quite clear. Drupal, however, more than simplifies the process of theme integration in comparison to other average CMS solutions.

The most amazing thing about Drupal is the ability to manage and tweak the entire website via single centralized database. You get the best-of-world support for elements like SSL, documentation management, multimedia, social networking & permission capabilities. The codebase of Drupal gives it a remarkable add-on functionality making it way ahead from the Joomla CMS.

Whether the website to be hosted is a personal or a commerce related website, Drupal offers a very stable platform. Selecting a right host for getting up a Drupal website requires some considerations. Certain common elements in your host like efficient customer support, stable server & user-friendly pricing are almost to be assumed.

In addition to the above, a good Drupal web hosting solution must at all costs provide auto-installation of Drupal and sound tech support on Drupal medium. Manual installation of Drupal CMS is a cumbersome, so it’s essential that your web hosting provider includes Auto Installation of Drupal. Look for an in-house developed software or Simple Scripts or better still Fantastico so that the agony is taken out of install, uninstall and updation functions.

Specialized tech support on Drupal technology is a pre-requisite. Drupal coding and configuration is a challenging bit in comparison to WordPress and even Joomla. Hence it becomes imperative that the company you contacted has experts who can handle Drupal customization and configuration at a moderate level whenever it is needed.

Dr Sanjay Joshi
Online Marketing Head
Znet Technologies

ZNET Technologies Private Limited (formerly ZNET India) is India’s leading Web hosting and IT infrastructure company with global client base including Bajaj Finance, Sahara Global, Indian Nuclear Society, ClearTrip, NDTV Hindu, eBrandz, News 24, Birla Medisoft, etc The core of the company is to provide domain name registration, Web hosting services (Windows, Linux and Java), business email hosting, SSL certificates, dedicated and Hyper-V powered VPS servers and reseller hosting services to global and local clients. Visit http://www.znetindia.com.