Drupal Hosting

Lets start with some terms used a lot:

The Domain Name.

First you will need a Domain name like Helpinghost.com. Getting such a name is called Domain Registration which we also provide. That in itself only means that you are the owner of that name in the Internet.

The Web Hosting.

Your Domain Name needs to be pointed it to a Computer that is constantly connected to the Internet and has plenty of features in place to make sure that the Computer is always online.

A web server is such a Computer.

You will rent a bit of space on one of those Servers in a high tech datacenter and this is called Web Hosting.

The “pointing” that we mentioned above is done by so called Name Servers. (more about that you can find on our Support pages). If you are getting the domain name and Joomla hosting from HelpingHost.com, you will not have to worry about of any of this. We take care of all the settings for you. Just pick a domain name and hosting plan.

Now that your name is pointing to a Server you will probably see a Parking Page – a placeholder which hopefully will be replaced by your own web pages soon.

Easy so far right? Now comes the hard part! Building, creating, designing uploading and maintaining your own web pages. Either you can do this by sitting at your home computer trying to figure all this out or you can hire a professional web developer for thousands of Dollars.

Neither one is really an option for you?

Well, this is where Drupal comes into the picture. You just install it with a click of a button from your Drupal Hosting account and voila, your website is up and running. Now you can login to your Drupal install, and add the content to your site like images and text and tell Drupal how to organize it. You have Sections, Categories and Articles available and can sort in your website content however you like.

Average Hosting companies need to provide a very generic environment to ensure that as many web applications as possible are working. Drupal Hosting on the other hand means that everything is optimized for the use of the Content Management System Drupal.

It means, first of all that the Server your website runs on is configured to run PHP which is the programming language in which Drupal was written in. Next, PHP needs to be configured in a certain way to be able to run Drupal and its Plugins without problems.

Drupal hosting also means there has to be a tool that enables the website owner to install a Drupal as professional and safe as if you would have employed a Web developer with lots of Drupal Experience.
With us, you can install Drupal with a couple of clicks. You can also remove a complete Drupal install with the click of a button.

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