Platform setup time can create delays, and more particularly, access to qualified developers is scarce.ĭrupal is famed for it’s performance, and it’s lightweight architecture is well-suited to run efficiently and fast. There are typically timeline efficiencies to consider if using Drupal – site development can commence quickly, and required customisations and alterations implemented by a large number of vendors to ensure speed to market The common trap is in choosing an incapable Drupal partner – if this is avoided, any vendor can viably take over a Drupal site built elsewhereĬustomisations to a proprietary platform often unfortunately don’t follow best practice and/or are closely guarded by the platform owners, making it very difficult to move to an alternate vendor While others suggest core functionality of SiteCore is more advanced, it’s very rare for an organisation to be able to take advantage of those features given the complexity involved in implementationīeing open source, all customisations are open and available to the public. SiteCore is famous for it’s strong enterprise capabilities, with many reports having the platforms on par in this regard. SiteCore is popular with large organisations, (thousands of installations), and has a smaller community of available resources, typically at higher costsĭrupal has very powerful out of the box features, with thousands of available plug-ins, offering more than enough to cater for most organisations Updates are manually installed by your development partner.ĭrupal is widely supported (millions of installations) and there is a large community of reasonably priced agencies, developers and contractors available for project work
So if you’re running multiple servers for the one site, costs go up considerably.ĭrupal running in the Acquia Enterprise cloud does not require manual maintenance, and is updated as part of the Enterprise support costs, with seamless production migration
You’ll also pay extra license fees for each server your website runs on. $80-100k/year starting costs for basic implementation. Costs vary depending on requirements and capacity, however are typically < 25% of that of SiteCore Being open source, there are no license costs for the software, however there are support costs associated to run an Acquia Enterprise platform.