Introduction
Drupal- many of us have heard about it, but what actually it is?
Drupal is one of open source (free
to use and customize, for all) content management systems that allow us to host
our website on web platform without actually coding it. And the hosting that is
compactable with the basic framework of Drupal CMS and makes it available for
the viewers worldwide is known as Drupal hosting.
Although it does not require all
the coding stuff, still it's very popular among professional website developers
and designers, due to its high customizability & flexibility. Apart from
that, Drupal is the first choice of many government and enterprise websites
because of its excellent security.
Does it have any advantages over
other CMS? Of course, it has. We will list few benefits of Drupal
hosting here for you.
1. Flexibility
Flexibility to include a wide
variety of file types in your website. For example, you can choose to include
video files, blog posts, music files, maps, statistical tables, import data
from surveys, pictures and many more. Moreover, the cms provide tools with
super easy options to edit these files according to your requirements and
include them in your web pages.
2.Customizability
Drupal's customizability is backed by its community.
Although it comes with
customizable core components (APIs and modules), which even if fails to fulfill
your specific needs, are backed up by 43,000 modules that are contributed by
Drupal community. These modules allow you to integrate various custom features like including
social media links with a preview of the accounts, easy SEO, monitor site
traffic, prevention from unauthorized bot attacks, etc, with great ease.
3. Scalability
Ever thought of scaling your
website? What after it's content grew and the website becomes bulky? It goes on
becoming more and more complicated to handle and keep records of all posts and
pages. But with Drupal, growing number of webpages and web content doesn't
really add any burden on you. Its great scalability allows you to grow your
website exponentially and accommodate the huge growth in content, without actually
changing any core structure. Moreover, Drupal is excellent in handling sudden
high traffic demands. There is no doubt why it is being used by two great
websites, weather.com and whitehouse.gov.
4. Community
As already told, Drupal is an open
source content management system - anyone with the knowledge can customize and
contribute their part in the development of Drupal and its modules.
This encourages the exchange of
ideas and solutions for various problems faced by web developers. Community
forums are designed to keep you updated with new contributions and discuss
problems from a very basic level to a highly advanced level, making it super
easy for you to host a website using Drupal. Moreover, the supportive and
competitive culture of the forums results in innovations at an even faster
rate.
5. Security
Security of a website
hosting framework is very important when it comes to securing your
valuable data from attackers, limiting unauthorized login attempts, preventing
SQL injections, security loopholes, and other exploited vulnerabilities. It
becomes difficult to handle when either you are a beginner or the size of your
website has grown bulky.
With Drupal CMS, you need not
worry about security issues. According to Drupal's annual security report,
which says “there have been no widely exploited vulnerabilities in Drupal core
for which there was no patch or upgrade available at the time of public
disclosure", Drupal is highly secured cms with almost no history of wide
attack. Thanks to the efforts of the greatly talented and hardworking
community, which works extensively to offer regular patches and safeguarding
from exploits.
Conclusion:
Drupal has seen enormous growth in
use over recent years, mainly due to a super easy work interface. Drupal is
extensively flexible with various file types, customizable with a variety of
modules, and most important of all, secure. Be it a beginner or an expert,
choosing Drupal cms to host and customize your website won't make you regret
it.
