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Top Hosting Center is known to offer quality and affordable cloud computing services to its new and old consumers. These include cloud hosting plans, cloud storages and cloud servers. What most people don’t know is that the company offers plenty of additional and free services for every purchase of their products or subscription to their services.

Let’s say for example, a customer signs up to Top Hosting Center’s popular Cpanel Cloud Shared hosting plan. Aside from the value he gets from the advertised specs of the selected hosting plan – which includes generous disk storage, monthly bandwidth, free domain name and advanced web programming support – he is also entitled to receive software services such as extended data protection, web software installation, and many more. Some hosting companies offer these as separate paid services yet Top Hosting Center is offering them for free. Yep, they’re a huge bargain.

Top Hosting Center’s cloud computing data protection and backup services is powered by R1Soft. R1Soft provides continuous data protection tools that guarantees full data protection and fortify the stability and extensibility of Top Hosting Center’s cloud servers, cloud storage, and cloud shared hosting. Top Hosting Center follows a 15-day restore points of all web data with backups taken daily, and 15 days worth of backups of all databases with restore points available every 6 hours. Meaning, customers can restore a broken or an accidentally deleted database at any time upon request.

Customers who use MySQL as their web application’s database engine are also guaranteed to experience an optimum database support. Top Hosting Center’s support team are highly qualified – that’s why the company is accepted and a proud MySQL Enterprise Hosting Partner. MySQL database servers are routinely being optimized to maintain its zippy performance and high database server uptime rating.

You will only learn about how useful and how great these free services are once you’ve tried Top Hosting Center’s premium yet affordable cloud hosting and cloud server plans for your personal and business website needs.

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Many Top Hosting Center customers prefer using free and popular frameworks for their website needs. From blog platforms such as WordPress, to image galleries such as Gallery 2 and Coppermine, and from online community forums like phpBB and Simple Machines Forum, to online help platform like MediaWiki – all these web applications have 3 similarities: (1) they are popular, (2) they are free, and (3) they all run well on Top Hosting Center’s cloud hosting and cloud server plans.

Today we’ll discuss about Drupal, its features and ability to run smoothly on cloud hosting.

Drupal as its official website explains, “is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.” By “variety” it means that Drupal can be tailored to any website a user likes to build. It is a content management system (CMS) that can be used to create the following types of sites:

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate websites
• Intranet applications
• Personal website and blog
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce websites
• Resource directories and
• Social networking sites

By the looks of its capabilities, it appears that it directly competes with another popular CMS called Joomla. And like Joomla, it supports add-ons and plugins to extend its functionality.

Drupal has a minimal installation disk space requirement of 3MB and approximately from 40 MB to 60 MB for usual installation including custom themes and plugins. Drupal also has been deployed successfully on both Apache and IIS web servers, which means it can run on any cloud hosting or cloud server package offered by Top Hosting Center regardless of the operating system installed on them. For its database server, Drupal can be powered by the most popular database platforms such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle – with MySQL being the most recommended engine that the Top Hosting Center supports.

Just like most free web software, Drupal’s basic requirements reveal that it can run quite well on all Top Hosting Center cloud hosting and cloud server plans. For new users, the Cloud CPanel Shared Hosting plans offer the easiest path as CPanel includes one-click automatic software installer called “Fantastico.” However, this is only recommended for users who are planning to build personal websites as Drupal recommends a manual installation for websites concerning production, business and security.

Top Hosting Center’s brilliant 24×7 support team assists customers who want to do a manual Drupal installation. The latest stable versions of the software as of this writing are Drupal 6.19 and 5.23.