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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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!
