Not Sure Where to Host Your Drupal Website?
While there are many content management system platforms out there to choose from, many businesses have chosen Drupal as their CMS platform of choice, to support their E-commerce site.
Apart from the steep learning curve involved with Drupal, as a CMS it stands apart from the others in today’s open source market, due to its reliability and flexibility. Web designers and developers alike use Drupal as the foundation for a variety of digital projects, ranging from content rich websites, to online blogs, to directory sites and ecommerce stores.
While having a great foundation for a website is certainly important, the hosting of your Drupal website is just as essential. There are floods of hosting companies on the Internet advertising their services, so how can you pick the good from the bad?
BEWARE OF THESE HOSTING COMPANY PROBLEMS:
• Too Much Downtime
There isn’t much point in having a great website if it isn’t up on the virtual landscape for the world to access. A bad hosting company may result in a lot of downtime for your site, which will have negative impacts on your sales and conversions.
• Inadequate Security
A bad hosting company will neglect to provide security applications to protect your website from potential malicious activity by hackers, such as antivirus/anti-malware software and robust firewall technology.
• Slow Server Speed
Website pages that take more than a few seconds to load could be indicative of a web hosting company sharing hosting packages among multiple websites, which slow down the speed of their processors and bandwidth.
As for locating where to host your Drupal website, you may want to go with a company that is specialized in hosting Drupal websites. Such a hosting company would have the necessary knowledge, experience and equipment/software needed to provide a suitable server infrastructure to host your website, offer the needed speed for your site to run efficiently, maintain and repair any issues and provide the necessary security patches and compatibility upgrades needed.
When researching where to host your Drupal website, make sure to check how long companies have been in business, their testimonials, and ask for references.