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Articles on managed Drupal hosting and operations, government and higher-education Drupal patterns, version transitions, security, multi-site governance, and the operational disciplines that distinguish Drupal operators from integrators.
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Articles
ADA Title II and the 2027 Deadline: What a University Website Must Do, and Who Owns What
Public universities must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA under ADA Title II. Larger institutions have until April 26, 2027, smaller ones until April 26, 2028. Here is what the rule requires, and why the compliance obligation stays with the institution even when a vendor builds and hosts the site.
Drupal on AWS GovCloud vs Azure Government: The Institutional Decision Filter
Both AWS GovCloud and Azure Government run institutional Drupal workloads at FedRAMP scale. The decision between them is not about which cloud is better. It is about which cloud fits the agency's existing stack, identity model, procurement, and operational maturity.
Why Drupal Dominates Government Websites
Drupal powers a majority of US federal websites and a substantial portion of state and local government digital services. The reason is structural: Drupal's defaults match what government procurement and operations actually require.
Managed Drupal Hosting for Government: A Buyer's Guide
Selecting a managed Drupal hosting partner for a federal, state, or local agency is a multi-year procurement decision. Six evaluation dimensions separate operationally mature partners from integrators with marketing budgets.
Drupal Performance for Institutional Sites: The Operational Discipline That Holds
Drupal performance for institutional sites is a layered discipline: caching at multiple tiers, database hygiene, asset optimization, CDN delivery, and ongoing measurement. This is the operational pattern that produces sustained performance for public-sector Drupal.
Drupal Performance Practitioner's Guide: The Tools and Commands That Move the Needle
Drupal performance work is concrete: specific Drush commands, specific contrib modules, specific configuration changes, specific monitoring queries. This is the practitioner's guide for institutional Drupal teams who need to act on performance, not just theorize about it.
AWS Web Hosting for Institutional Sites: The Decision Filter Across Hosting Models
AWS offers multiple web-hosting models: Lightsail, S3 static hosting, EC2-based architectures, ECS/EKS containers, and Amplify. For institutional sites, the right model depends on the workload profile. This is the decision filter.
Drupal Caching: A Practitioner's Implementation Guide
Drupal caching for institutional sites is a multi-layer implementation: cache backend, page cache, dynamic page cache, render cache, BigPipe, Varnish, and CDN. This is the practitioner's guide for putting them in place.
Brace Yourself for the Drupal 10 Release: What Institutions Needed to Know
Drupal 10 shipped on December 14, 2022 after a six-month delay, with CKEditor 5, Symfony 6, PHP 8.1, and a deliberate path forward from Drupal 9. This is the prerelease context that shaped institutional planning.
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