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Platform as a ServiceWhat is Drupal?
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Drupal is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Categorize with taxonomy, automatically create friendly path urls, create custom lists, associate content with other content on your site, and create smart defaults for content creatorsManage content with an easy-to-use web interface. Drupal's flexibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control.Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions allowing users view and create only what the administrator permits.You can have tight control over who can create, view, administer, publish and otherwise interact with content on your site.Build internal and external-facing websites in a matter of hours, with no custom programming.Drupal's presentation layer allows designers to create highly usable, interactive experiences that engage users and increase traffic.With more than 16,000 available modules, the vast majority of your site's requirements can be addressed with Drupal core and available add-on modules.
Drupal Pros & Cons
Pros of Drupal
- ✓Stable, highly functional cms
- ✓Great community
- ✓Easy cms to make websites
- ✓Highly customizable
- ✓Digital customer experience delivery platform
- ✓Really powerful
- ✓Customizable
- ✓Flexible
- ✓Good tool for prototyping
- ✓Enterprise proven over many years when others failed
Cons of Drupal
- ✗DJango
- ✗Steep learning curve
Drupal Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Drupal?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
