By zirafi on

Hi,

My name is Ram and i launched a community based site developed in ASP with MS SQL. This has been devloped by third party. Now i would like to convert this whole site into PHP based site. While i am looking for tools on PHP it happened to find this site and logged in immly. Now i have the following questions. It will be a great help if someone can answer these questions.

1. Can i migrate my site using "Drupal" without loosing any data.

2. What kind of expertise one needs to have to do my job.

3. Do i need to have specific hosting package ( other than usual PHP hosting package) if i am able to get
my site back with Drupal.

4. Can i make my site secured with this system.

Please let me know and i really need answers to the above so it will help me to make decission on my above requirement. Here is our site.

www.eparadesi.com
www.paradesi.net

Thanks,
Ram

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Thox commented

I'm not the best person to answer all this, but I can offer my thoughts on your points:

1) Yes - although this isn't going to be automatic. It depends on the complexity of the MSSQL database.
2) MSSQL & Drupal are about all - preferably someone experienced in both.
3) You need PHP and a MySQL database.
4. Drupal is secure by default, with settings and optional modules to tweak the security to do almost anything you like.