Drupal is one of those presently available CMS' whose popularity is spreading far and wide very fast. Owing to its extensive range of plug-in and templates, web designers can easily develop and distribute powerful web applications.

For those webmasters who are testing this platform for the first time, or who need to run a collection of low visitor websites, it would be a great choice to select a cheap host. Though they come with more restrictions on disk space and bandwidth when compared to professional hosting packages, cheaper web hosting today tends to have good reliability.

Perhaps one of the most important choices while starting is to choose the right web hosting for your Drupal applications. Changing hosts once your web application has been developed takes up a lot of time. For media heavy websites, you will have lots of support files that need to be moved from the old server to the new server. Hence, the time factor becomes predominant here. While things are being moved to a different web host, there is a high chance of certain things getting damaged. Once your Drupal site starts making money, your project will automatically be affected.

The factors that are to be kept in mind when deciding on a web package include:

Cost- People always look for products which fit in their budget. US5 dollars is considered to be a good buy for you.

2. Disk Space - Is the storage provided to cope with your current website sufficient? Does it include the possibility of growth of the web site? You should expect unlimited storage, which in reality equates to 1,000 GB of files.

3. Limit of domains - another important factor is the number of domains the package allows per account. If you intend to host websites on your account, you will be requiring a package with unlimited domains.

Limit of databases- Similar amount of databases is required for more than single domains. Multiple databases are a feature supported by it.

Traffic limit- Room for growing reader numbers must be made while choosing a package. But, this comes at a price higher than your initial budget limit.

If you want to run many websites from a single code base, it's multisite option is well-suited for you. This comes in handy when you want to run several websites from a single hosting account. An update of a plug-in or theme in the code base automatically ensures each of the Drupal-powered sites running on that code base will pick up the update. Thus, maintenance of the code base becomes much easier and less time consuming. The running of multiple websites from a single account is permitted by even the cheap hosting packages, making them all the more attractive.

Configuration of hosting for all cheap Drupal hosting hosts is done on shared servers. It is common knowledge that these shared web servers run multiple accounts on a single computer. Hence, your package will sit with other websites on the server and the resources will be shared among all of them. The advantage of this method is that the price is kept low. However, the disadvantage is that the actions of other people on the server will impact the performance of your account. But when it comes to running blogs with less than 1,000 unique visitors per day, your purpose will be served efficiently. However, if your website receives more than this many readers, then dedicated or VPS hosting should be considered.