I am planning to buy a resellers account but I’m not sure which account to go with as I’ve never used Drupal before.
I have experience in HTML and CSS which enables me to design and style simple websites but I want to create a CMS website to enable my websites to do much more than I personally am capable of.
My question is how much disk space is required for each site and do I need to install a new instance of Drupal for each and every site. From reading the info I understand a website which runs Drupal takes 60GB and the hosting company offers packages that hold 100GB (Mini), 200GB (Standard) and 300GB (professional).
If each instance takes 60GB, I’m only going to be able to run 3 websites of the standard package. Have I understood this correctly?
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For a small site anything
For a small site anything from 20-200M is enough, depending on how many images you have.
However, Drupal IMO usually runs into resource problems (RAM, IO) with shared hosting, as well as broken sites and can be slow. We also see a lot of posts about sites which do not work, and hosting companies whose support staff do not have the skills for Drupal (even some who claim to offer a Drupal specialist option). I would suggest using a real, Drupal-only specialist host, which will cost more. My attitude is why spend the large amount of time building and maintaining Drupal, which is great for large complex sites, then spoil the sites by tolerating slow page loads. If you want to go cheap, and save time and money, use Wordpress.
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