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Drupal is an open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Its open source modular framework and content management platform allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a Web site. It is written in PHP. Drupal is sometimes described as a Web application framework, as its capabilities go beyond content management to enabling a wide range of services and transactions. Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin board system, Drupal has became one of the best open source project in the world now.
Since Drupal community hasn't given out a clear guide about what kinds of web hosting solution is appropriate to a drupal site and a lot of people encounter this or that kind of problem during installation, it's quite common for the Drupal site webmaster to decide to purchase an VPS or even powerful web hosting solution for their site. But actually, thing is not as complex as they thought. They have a cheaper choice.
Drupal is developed by php and MySQL or PostgreSQL. So, a support to php and the related database is the basic requirement for it. And Linux OS works perfect for them. But what make it difficult with the other web site is that it does have some special requirement at system wide, which includes being able to change the access privilege of the file and folder, create Cron job in the system, and the connection speed between the database and web server need to be very fast.
So, you can see that Drupal web site is just like all the other php web site and can run in a shared web hosting environment. What you need to do is to find a web hosting service provider which will give you all the necessary privilege in the web hosting environment. And a shared web hosting solution is much cheaper than VPS, and will only cause you less than $7/month in most case.
A general guide for Drupal hosting is that if the unique IP traffic for your site is less than 3000/day, a shared web hosting solution should be good enough. But if your site gets more than this number, then go to get a VPS solution.
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