Drupal is in no time becoming one of the respectable CMS' available today. Drupal has evolved with time and now has many features that other CMS don't.

Cheap shared web hosting is the perfect choice for those who are new to Drupal or want to set up a web site for their small business. Cheaper web hosting today tends to have good reliability, but disk space and bandwidth are often more restricted than with more costly hosting packages.

Before starting any site in Drupal be sure that you have found the best web host that will suite your needs. Having to change hosts once your web application has been deployed is a time consuming task. If your site is media rich, when moving from the old host to the new one you will have to move a lot of support files. This is time consuming job. Very often after you have finished moving the files something will not work like it's suppose to be. If your website earns revenue then your business will be effected.

There are some factors you need to consider before going online:

1. Bandwidth - if you have a lot of visitors to your site then you should chose plan with unlimited bandwidth. Costs are generally high if you go over your allowed limit.

2. Cost - For cheap Drupal hosting you want a good value package. Currently US$4 is considered is cheap, but you can find even cheaper shared hosting.

3. Number of Domains - how many domain are you allowed to install with that package. If you have lots of websites on your account you should get an package with unlimited domains.

4. Limit of databases - if you have lots of domains will need a similar amount of databases. Consider that many Drupal websites have many database per website.

5. Disk Space - How much space will you get with the plan that you will purchase. Maybe you site is small now but will time will grow and will need more space. Will it be enough for the future of the web site? Expect to get unlimited disk space, which in effect equals 1,000 GB, gigabytes of storage.

Drupal has a multisite feature that will allow you to run multiple sites from one installation. This is very useful if you plan to run many web sites from one single account. This way when you update one module or theme automatically is updated for all of your sites. This makes the maintenance of the installation less time consuming. Even the cheap hosting hosts allow you to run multiple websites from a single account.

All cheap Drupal hosting hosts will configure their hosting on shared computers. The shared hosts run many hosting accounts on one single computer. Your package will sit with other accounts on the server and share the resources. The good thing is that the price is kept low. The down side is that other peoples websites on the server will disrupt the performance of your account. As a general rule you can comfortably run Drupal websites expecting 1,000 unique visitors per day. If your Drupal website enjoys more than this many readers, then you should consider dedicated or VPS hosting.