Archive for the ‘Drupal Hosting’ Category

WordPress VS Drupal

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Which is better? First an overview of both web applications.

WordPress

WordPress is blog publishing platform and a content management system. Have many features including user registration with simple permissions, blog posts, static pages, RSS feeds, cross blog communication tools (pingbacks and trackbacks), comments, extension system (plugins), template system and many others.

Drupal

Drupal is content management system. Shares many features and hosting requirements with WordPress including the above mentioned, but more powerful user system (permissions), ability to create your own content types and better (more complex) administration panel.

So which is better?

This depends on what your web site will be about. Both are very good applications and are very popular, with lots of extensions and themes. If you are starting a personal site/blog than wordpress would be the choice because it is easy to manage and have good and simple admin panel. Although drupal can be used for personal websites, drupal tends more to be community driven, and is better for large corporate websites. So the choice is yours, whichever you choose you won’t regret.

Posted in CMS, Drupal Hosting, Web Hosting, WebHosting, Wordpress Hosting | Comments Off

Drupal Web Hosting

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Drupal is free, open-source content management software. It is powerful CMS script with lots of features including user managenent (permission system), content managent with custom content types, RSS feeds, internationalization/localization in many languages, modules – extensions system, theme system (with widget support) and many others. It is licensed under GNU General Public License that gives much freedom to developers. Drupal have gained popularity in recent years (fact is that many corporate and government sites use drupal (whitehouse.gov)), and become among top 5 most used CMS. The official package can be download at drupal.org, and it is called the drupal core. Drupal core have the core modules and components needed to create simple website, blog or online community. It can be run on any web server (Apache httpd for example) with PHP language and MySQL database support. Some special PHP settings like register_globals must be turned off in order drupal to be installed. It is somewhat difficult for first time user to maintain drupal web site, but once it get used to it is much easier. Hosting acounts at the following hosts: Hostgator, Bluehost, Hostmonster, IXwebhosting, Webhostingpad, Dreamhost, Justhost are perfectly setup so you can run drupal without any problems. They also support custom PHP.ini for register_globals option and have one-click installers that will help you install drupal without need of download/uploading script, setting databases and files.

Posted in Drupal Hosting, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Services, WebHosting | 1 Comment »