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Adam Bergstein
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Adam Bergstein is a product engineering leader and an architect. He has been a long-time Drupal community member, a routine speaker at Drupal community events around the globe, and provided keynotes for several events. He has maintained and contributed to many Drupal projects, including Password Policy, Taxonomy Menu, and more. Adam is the lead of Simplytest, a free service, and a project that offers Drupal community members testing sandboxes. He has also worked for both agencies building Drupal applications and Drupal service providers building Drupal-related products. He has led the Drupal Community Governance Task Force and is serving a term as a community board member of the Drupal Association.
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Hosting Drupal and platform requirements

Drupal requires a hosted platform to run any Drupal application. Drupal runs as a server-side rendered PHP application accessible from a web browser. The hosting platform must be able to process requests made through its web server to execute the Drupal application. Drupal is not stateless. To be able to make configurations and store content, Drupal requires the hosting platform to persistently store files and structured content in a database. The context of each request helps the application determine how to process the request. Drupal loads its configuration, queries relevant information from the database, and leverages PHP to do the processing.

The following figure shows an example LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack with a Drupal application:

Figure 3.1 – High-level LAMP stack and request flow

Figure 3.1 – High-level LAMP stack and request flow

Each version of Drupal sets its own platform requirements. Platform requirements are published on drupal...

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Adam Bergstein

Adam Bergstein is a product engineering leader and an architect. He has been a long-time Drupal community member, a routine speaker at Drupal community events around the globe, and provided keynotes for several events. He has maintained and contributed to many Drupal projects, including Password Policy, Taxonomy Menu, and more. Adam is the lead of Simplytest, a free service, and a project that offers Drupal community members testing sandboxes. He has also worked for both agencies building Drupal applications and Drupal service providers building Drupal-related products. He has led the Drupal Community Governance Task Force and is serving a term as a community board member of the Drupal Association.
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