The Best Drupal Hosting Features
There are many options when hosting your site: self-hosted, managed hosting, cloud or non-cloud. What should you choose? We've prepared the following feature list to help you decide:
Feature | Self-hosted | Shared hosting | Xplain Hosting |
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Runs Drupal | |||
Optimised for Drupal | |||
Easy setup Drupal from various Drupal distributions | |||
Webfonts: use any typekit font for free | |||
Server environment kept up-to-date and patched | |||
Automated backups | |||
Don't worry about heavy traffic (scales with demand) | |||
Both a staging and live site | |||
Push updates from staging to live | |||
Drupal automatically patched to latest version | |||
Drupal support | |||
Drush | manual install | ||
Subversion (source code repository) | manual setup | ||
Multiple developer access (including separate Subversion accounts) | manual setup | ||
SSH, SFTP | |||
PHP curl/imap/pear, PECL upload progress, 64MB per PHP process | |||
Apache rewrite, geoip, deflate modules | manual setup | ||
phpMyAdmin | manual setup | ||
Download entire Drupal site with one click | |||
Download backup of database with one click |
Need something we haven't listed explicitly? Just ask!