What is important when it comes to Drupal web hosting?

How to find good Drupal web hosting? Well, just like any other web application, Drupal requires that you have PHP support and access to MySQL database (PostgreSQL is also supported by Drupal). However, this is not enough for Drupal to run smoothly. You need several other things to have on your hosting in order for your Drupal website to run without any problems:

- Drupal is best if you run it on Linux platform. Personally I suggest you to go for Linux based web hosting, because it is much more stable and secure than Windows hosting.

- Easy to use Control Panel that will allow you to create new databases and do everyday tasks. Usually all web hosting companies will give you cPanel, which is a pretty good Control Panel system.

- Your web host should allow you to easily create, modify or delete existing databases and change permissions on those databases. This should be done inside Control Panel.

- phpMyAdmin script installed so that you can easily manipulate data in your existing databases, execute queries on your own and backup your databases.

- Drupal requires cron job set up on every 24 hours in order to run smoothly. This one is very important for your Drupal website, as Drupal must perform certain actions automatically every 24 hours (or often). So it's important that your web host have cron editor where you can set up your own cron jobs.

- Next you need a very fast connection to the database. This is because Drupal heavily depends on database system and have many queries that need to be executed very fast. The web hosts that I recommend all provide you with fast connections to the database system.

- You need excellent customer support. As always, you may run into problems with your Drupal installation or you just might have questions that need to be answered. Excellent customer support is a must when it comes to Drupal web hosting.

- The ability to host multiple domains on 1 hosting account. This is very attractive feature of Drupal. You can have as many web sites using only one instance of Drupal web application. This means that every domain will use its own database, but all domains will use one same instance of Drupal. This way you save on your web space. This feature is really cool if you want to have many Drupal websites on 1 hosting account.