Cheap Drupal Hosting

Drupal is fast becoming one of the best CMS' available today. It's plethora of modules and templates allows web designers to quickly build and deploy powerful websites.

Choosing a cheap Drupal host is a great idea for people who are testing Drupal for the first time, or who want to run a number of small visitor websites. Cheaper web hosting today tends to have good reliability, but disk space and bandwidth are often more restricted than with more costly hosting packages.

Choosing the best web hosting for your Drupal websites is an important choice to make from the start. Having to change hosts once your web application has been deployed is a time consuming task. If your website is media rich you will have lots of support files that need to be moved from the old web host to the new web host. This takes a lot of time. It is common for something to not work after the move to a different web host. If your website earns revenue then your business will be effected.

Factors to consider when choosing a web host include:

1. Cost - For cheap Drupal hosting you want a good value package. US$5 each month is considered cheap. 

2. 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. 

3. Limit of domains - how many domains does the package allow per account? If you have lots of websites on your account you should get an package with unlimited 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. Bandwith - If you hope your websites to grow in visitor numbers dramatically you should select an package that allows unlimited traffic. Costs are generally high if you go over your allowed limit.

Drupal's multisite feature allows you to run many websites from a single installation. This is useful if you want to run several websites from a single hosting 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. The good thing is that the price is kept low. The down side is that other peoples websites on the server will disrupt the performance of your account. 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.