In the world of Content Management Systems (CMS) there are 3 major contenders: WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. If you are creating a new website, you may be asking yourself which one is best. All three have their own pros and cons, and all three are free to use, open-source software. Let’s take a brief look at each one to see which CMS is right for you.

 

WordPress

Created back in 2003 and currently running on more than 70 million websites, WordPress is by far the most popular CMS out there. It started out as just a simple blogging tool, but has evolved into a full, feature-rich, content management system. With it’s extremely easy to use interface, you can create a website in only a matter of minutes. Plus, with the endless amount of free themes and plugins available for WordPress, it’s easy to make your website look great. However, popularity does have it’s drawbacks. For instance, WordPress is one of the biggest targets for hackers. It is critical you keep it up-to-date to prevent attacks on your website. Regardless, with it’s intuitive design and countless number of free customizations, this easy to manage CMS demonstrates why it’s a popular choice.

 

Joomla

Considered the second most popular CMS out there, Joomla is also easy to use, but is a bit more complex and requires a higher skill level than WordPress. It has less free customizations when compared to WordPress, however when it comes to E-Commerce sites, Joomla excels and tends to be a favorite choice. It is also considered to have one of the strongest developer communities. Joomla is based on PHP and MySQL, giving more advanced developers the ability to create a powerful web application. With a minor amount of effort into learning Joomla’s terminology and structure, you can go on to create a fairly complex website. If you are looking for something still fairly easy, but with more flexibility than WordPress, Joomla might be the one for you.

 

Drupal

Drupal is ranked as the third most popular CMS in the world. It is regarded as the most complex, with the highest learning curve of the three. Drupal has a greater amount of free customizations and themes available when compared to Joomla, but less than WordPress. It is considered to be one of the most versatile and robust content management systems available today. When it comes to websites that contain a large amount of complex data with heavy visitor traffic, Drupal is an excellent choice due to the speed and strength from its advanced structure. However, all of this comes at the cost of needing more experience and expertise to truly utilize this powerful, developer friendly CMS. If you are looking for an enterprise-ready CMS that will scale with your growing business, look no further than Drupal.

 

Whether you are a beginner looking to start a blog, an expert developer creating a complex, versatile site, or somewhere in between, one of these three CMS applications will definitely get the job done. Best of all, they are free to use and support simple one-click installations. So if you are currently hosted on TurnKey Internet’s shared cloud platform or have a cPanel dedicated server, getting started couldn’t be any easier! The question then becomes not which one is best, but instead, which one is best for you.

 

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Whether you are a beginner looking to start your first website, or a tech-savvy business owner creating your company’s e-commerce store, one of the first decisions you will make is what Content Management System, or CMS, to use. A CMS is an application that supports the creation and publication of digital content and media. More importantly, a CMS allows creators with little knowledge of programming languages to easily create and manage websites and their content.

While there are various options when it comes to choosing a CMS, a few standout due to their popularity:

 

Drupal

Currently ranked the 3rd most popular CMS in the world, Drupal is considered as one of the most versatile, and robust systems available today. If you’re building a website that will contain a large amount of complex data, and expect to have heavy visitor traffic, Drupal is an excellent choice due to the speed and strength from its advanced structure. It also features a large amount of free themes and available add-ons. However, all of this comes at the cost of needing more experience and expertise to truly utilize this powerful, yet at times complex CMS. Drupal is enterprise-ready and will scale with your growing business.

 

Joomla

Next we have the 2nd most popular CMS, Joomla. When it comes to E-Commerce sites, Joomla tends to be a favorite choice for many. It’s based on PHP and MySQL, allowing more advanced developers to create powerful web applications. This has helped Joomla to build what’s considered to be one of the strongest developer communities around. With a minor amount of effort into learning Joomla’s terminology and structure, you can go on to create a fairly advanced website.

 

WordPress

Finally, we have by far the most popular CMS out there, WordPress. Back in 2003, WordPress started out as just a simple blogging tool. Today, it has grown into a full, feature-rich, content management system, that is currently running on more than 75 million websites. With it’s extremely easy to use interface, you can create a website in only a matter of minutes. Plus, with the endless amount of free themes and plugins available for WordPress, it’s easy to make your website look great. However, popularity does have it’s drawbacks. For instance, WordPress is one of the biggest targets for hackers. It is critical you keep it up-to-date to prevent attacks on your website. Regardless, with it’s intuitive design and countless number of free customizations, this easy to manage CMS demonstrates why it’s a popular choice.

 

All three CMS applications listed above have their own pros and cons, but a benefit they all share is that they are free to use, open-source software. Plus to make things even easier, they all support simple one-click installations. Need help getting started? At TurnKey Internet, our Cloud Solution Specialists are here to assist. Contact us today!

 

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While you may have been urged by Drupal to update your software late in 2014 due to SQL injection attacks in compromised Drupal 7 sites. Drupal has released version 6.35 and 7.35 to address a few newly discovered vulnerabilities within their software.

Listed in an advisory by Drupal’s security team, Drupal stated one of the vulnerabilities they are addressing has allowed password reset URLs to be forged. This allows malicious users to gain access without knowing the password.
In Drupal 7 this vulnerability is segragated to sites where accounts have been imported or edited in ways that will result in the password hash, in the database being the same for multiple user accounts.

In Drupal 6 this vunlnerability can be exploited on sites where administrators have created multiple user accounts with the same password. As well as where accounts have been imported or edited in ways that will result in the password hash, in the database being empty for at least one user account. Drupal 6 sites having an empty password hash, or a password with an easily compromised string in the database are extreamly prone to this vulnerability.

The second vulnerability Drupal’s team has patched is the ability for malicous users to devise a URL, sending visitors to a 3rd party website.

Drupal modules use a destination query to redirect users to a new destination after completing an action. Malicious users can use this destination parameter to construct a URL that will fool users by redirected them to a 3rd party website. Several URL related API functions in Drupal 6 and 7 can be fooled into passing through external URLs when that was not the intention, leading to open redirect vulnerabilities.

This vulnerability is has been down played as a large amount of the destination parameter are not vulnerable to the attack. Although, all confirmation forms built using Drupal 7’s form API are vulnerable! Drupal has also stated some Drupal 6 confirmation forms are vulnerable too.

Drupal versions affected:

Drupal core 6.x versions prior to 6.35

Drupal core 7.x versions prior to 7.35

How to rectify these vulnerabilities? Update to the latest versions.

If you use the Drupal 6.x upgrade to Drupal core 6.35

If you use the Drupal 7.x upgrade to Drupal core 7.35

For those using TurnKey Internet’s Web Hosting with Drupal can simply login to your cPanel control panel, click on the Softaculous icon, and update your drupal version from there as well as from the Drupal Control panel of your installated copy on your web site.  If any questions contact our customer service team, or keep posted on our help desk at http://helpdesk.turnkeyinternet.net/

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