A Drupal hosting is a type of internet hosting specialized and optimized for the operation of the content management system (CMS), Drupal. This specialization allows for more effective and stable management of the CMS, offering an ideal environment for the development and maintenance of Drupal-based websites.

Drupal hosting is based on a Linux operating system, a system widely recognized for its reliability and security. This operating system is married to a PHP interpreter, which is a scripting language designed for web development. PHP is the language Drupal is written in, so having a PHP interpreter is essential for Drupal hosting.

In addition to that, a Drupal hosting incorporates a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. Both are very popular database management systems used for managing data in web applications, including Drupal. This database is served through an Apache or NGINX WebServer, both of which are widely used for serving websites on the Internet. Using Apache or NGINX ensures efficient and stable distribution of data from the database to the website.

Specific Drupal hostings feature server-side configurations that can use enterprise-grade caches such as Varnish or Memcached. These high-level configurations ensure faster loading of web pages, improving the end-user experience. Additionally, they follow best practices established by the Drupal developer community, ensuring that hosting is aligned with the latest Drupal innovations and standards.

As for system support, Drupal hosting is equipped with a team of technical experts specialized in all matters related to Drupal. These specialists are experts in solving the most common issues that can arise when using Drupal, making them an invaluable support for users. Their expertise ensures that any issues can be resolved quickly and effectively, minimizing site downtime and ensuring regular, hassle-free maintenance.

 Our Drupal hosting offers an environment that supports multiple versions of PHP, from 5.3 to 8.1 and above, thus ensuring high compatibility with all versions of Drupal.

Our technology has been carefully thought out and fine-tuned to be not only reliable, but also incredibly resilient. The foundation of this success is our software stack, which has been carefully designed and rigorously tested to handle a high volume of traffic. With the ability to handle over 2000 requests per second for cached pages, our system is designed to operate in a high-performance environment without compromising stability or efficiency.

Thanks to our robust infrastructure and cutting-edge technology, we have achieved remarkable milestones. We served over 10 million page views per hour, an impressive result that testifies to the efficiency and robustness of our system. Per month, this amounts to over 200 million page views, demonstrating our ability to handle a constant flow of high volume traffic.

Nominally and contractually, we are committed to guaranteeing the capacity to handle up to 30 users per minute on cached pages. This is our promise to our customers, a commitment we make sure to keep consistently. However, our infrastructure has been designed with a certain elasticity, allowing us to handle traffic peaks well beyond this limit. In fact, we have already managed peaks exceeding 150 users per minute, demonstrating the flexibility and resilience of our system.

And all this without ever imposing additional costs on the customer. We firmly believe that our job is to provide a high-quality Drupal hosting service, capable of handling any volume of traffic, without surprises or hidden costs. Our goal is to give owners of Drupal sites hosted with us peace of mind that their site will always be accessible, regardless of traffic volume or unexpected spikes.

In our commitment to provide a high-quality and high-performance hosting service, we use different locations according to the specific needs of each project. This allows us to offer unmatched flexibility while ensuring a highly reliable and secure support network.

The vast majority of our service, over 95%, is concentrated in Germany and Finland. These two locations have been carefully chosen for their reputation for reliability, security and compliance with data protection regulations. Both of these regions are known for their stringent privacy and data protection regulations, which allows us to offer our customers complete peace of mind.

However, we also have a small but significant presence in Italy. This allows us to provide local support to our Italian customers, while ensuring that their hosting is managed with the same care and attention to security that characterizes our service in Germany and Finland.

Every infrastructure we use is operated by companies with Tier V level datacenters. This is the highest tier of datacenters available, featuring world-class infrastructure and an unmatched level of redundancy to ensure maximum availability.

In addition to this, all our partners hold ISO27001 certification, an international standard for information security management. This certification ensures that our partners adopt the best practices for the protection of data and sensitive information.

Finally, all our infrastructures fully comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This ensures that our customers' data is always treated with the utmost respect and maximum protection, offering additional guarantees for data security and privacy.

Only Drupal applications are officially supported, but the PHP runtime is complete. Some users have experimented with running applications with custom PHP code. Regardless, you can always contact technical support to evaluate alternative ad-hoc solutions configured differently compared to specific hosting for Drupal.

Managed Server has developed an innovative proprietary stack that integrates a number of powerful technologies to deliver optimal performance in Drupal installations. This stack, the result of meticulous work and extensive experience, combines tools such as Zend OpCache, Memcache, Redis.io, Varnish and NGINX to provide an extremely fast, reliable and secure hosting service.

Zend OpCache is used to optimize the execution of PHP code, increasing the overall speed and performance of the site. Memcache, on the other hand, is a high-performance in-memory caching system that improves the responsiveness of databases. Redis.io is employed as Object Storage, to provide quick access to stored data, while Varnish, a server-side caching solution, is used to speed up page load time.

NGINX acts as an SSL terminator, ensuring a secure connection between the server and the visitor's browser. This configuration has been specifically designed to work in synergy with Drupal installations, guaranteeing the best possible performance.

The technologies adopted in our stack have been carefully selected based on the best practices suggested by the Drupal developer community. Furthermore, we have drawn inspiration from enterprise-level case studies of global publishing companies in order to provide a cutting-edge and competitive hosting service.

One of the distinguishing features of our stack is an intelligent cache revalidation system. This system, unique of its kind, allows the delivery of an HTML page in an extraordinarily short period of time, between 30 and 50 milliseconds. This delivery speed is almost instantaneous, ensuring smooth and pleasant navigation for the user and a competitive advantage for sites hosted on our service.

Yes, absolutely. We will have a member of our Senior Engineering team dedicated to optimizing your Drupal site. This expert will have the task of customizing and improving your site in order to make it perfectly compatible and aligned with the objectives you have set. Our experience and expertise allow us to ensure that every aspect of your site is configured optimally, ensuring maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

One of the key areas our technician will focus on will be cache management and cache cleaning. These are essential processes that can have a significant impact on the speed and performance of your site. Through careful configuration and careful management, we will ensure that your site's cache is always optimized, allowing for fast delivery of content and a smooth and pleasant user experience.

If your site uses technologies such as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and other mobile-specific features, our engineer will also ensure these are configured correctly. AMP pages are powerful tools for improving page loading speed on mobile devices and giving your visitors a great reading experience. Our expert will optimize and manage these features for you, ensuring they are always in line with the latest best practices.

Ultimately, our commitment is to make sure your Drupal site performs to the best of its ability, regardless of your specific needs or the complexity of your project. With Managed Server, you can rest assured that your site will be in the hands of a team of dedicated and highly trained experts.

Absolutely, if required, we are able to devote our time and expertise to optimizing the Core Web Vitals of your site, with the aim of improving the Google PageSpeed ​​score. These factors are crucial in ensuring that your site provides the best possible user experience and is positioned favorably in search engine results.

Among the tasks we undertake to perform are the minification of static resources such as JavaScript (JS) files and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This process reduces file size by deleting unnecessary data without affecting functionality, thereby improving site load times.

We also adopt the use of WebP images, a modern image format that provides superior compression for images on the web. This allows you to deliver high-quality images with small file sizes, speeding up page load times. However, we understand that not all browsers, such as Safari and iOS, currently support this format, so we will implement this technology in a compatible way, ensuring that all users can view images on your site correctly.

Another strategy we use is JavaScript “defer” or “delay”. This means that we delay the execution of some JavaScript scripts until it is needed, thus preventing any delay in opening the page due to the loading of these scripts.

Finally, we are committed to reducing your site's Time To First Byte (TTFB) to less than 100 milliseconds. TTFB is the time between the client requesting a web page and receiving the first byte of data from the server. A lower TTFB means your users will start seeing your site content more quickly, thus improving their overall experience.

ManagedServer supports switching between the local development mode it uses git pushto transfer all code changes and a development mode to the server, which provides access to the codebase via SFTP.

Direct SSH access is supported, and it is also possible to interface directly with mysql, use CLI tools ( Terminus , drush , WP-CLI ) and SFTP files

Yes, we normally migrate the customer's data free of charge overnight and without disruption to the new machine and we proceed with the optimization of everything (file / database / mail) so that everything is perfectly functional.

Since around 2012 we have decided to verticalize our knowledge of the most requested but often problematic CMS, such as Drupal. Given its complex nature and wide range of features, optimizing Drupal-based sites can be particularly challenging. However, our work and specialization make these improvements remarkably evident and tangible, leading to total customer satisfaction. Thanks to our experience, we are able to transform a Drupal site from slow and cumbersome to high-performance and snappy.

We care about the security of your data and the continuity of your site, therefore we take a series of measures to protect you from hacker attacks, human errors or accidental loss of data. One of the main precautions we take is to perform at least three daily backups of your site using three different technologies. This ensures that we always have at least one reliable backup available in case of need. In particular, for blogs that produce a high volume of content, we also provide hourly backups to ensure maximum data security.

Furthermore, we offer the possibility of insuring your business and website with an additional policy. This insurance covers any loss of data and can go up to ten thousand euros. This option provides additional peace of mind and protection for your site and online activities.

As far as system security is concerned, we use advanced hardware firewalls and DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) mitigation systems to protect your site from external attacks. These high-level security measures ensure that our service is a point of reference for the most demanding customers, including those who manage important businesses with considerable income. Our infrastructure is designed to resist attacks and to keep your site available in any situation.

The security of your data and the protection of your business are our top priority. With our holistic approach to security and backup solutions, you can rest easy knowing that your data is safe and that your site will always be accessible and functional.

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All our contracts are valid for 12 months with monthly payment and are not binding except for the single month. You will therefore be able to use the server for a minimum of one month to be followed by the monthly renewal. Cancellation requires 30 days notice.

May 25, 2018 was a day of great importance for the protection of personal data of citizens of the European Union, as the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. This regulation was introduced by the European Commission with the aim of unifying and strengthening the protection of personal data of all European citizens. It is important to note that the GDPR applies to all companies that process data of European citizens, regardless of their location within the European Union.

Managed Server is fully aware of the importance and complexity of the GDPR, and strictly applies the provisions of the new legislation, EU Regulation 2016/679. We are committed to ensuring that the personal data of our customers and of their website users is treated in compliance with the provisions of the GDPR.

When providing our website hosting and management services, we take a number of measures to ensure data protection. These measures include advanced security policies, controlled access, encryption of sensitive data, constant system monitoring and incident management procedures.

We also provide support and advice to our customers to help them comply with the GDPR. This includes reviewing data handling practices and implementing appropriate security measures to ensure regulatory compliance.

We are proud to offer a service that meets the requirements of the GDPR and to provide our customers with the peace of mind of knowing that their data is treated securely and in compliance with current regulations. Our attention to the protection of personal data is a key priority in our business and we are ready to support our customers in complying with the provisions of the GDPR.

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