Deploying Drupal Like a Pro

This article is part of the Deploying Drupal Like a Pro series.

Application Files and Content Files

If you have just started playing with Drupal you will have something like this in your site's directory structure:

sites/default/files

sites/default/files/tmp

sites/default/files/private

Introducing the Deploying Drupal Like a Pro Series

Building a Drupal site is difficult, developing a Drupal Based application is more difficult but correctly managing, deploying and keeping alive an application who's customer is paying you a 4, 5 or even 6 figure number per month is even more difficult. And if you want to do that one last thing in a cost effective way you must do it yourself.