I have a few websites but not in Drupal, so treat me as a NOOB!
I'm keen to learn Drupal as it seems to have more finesse than Wordpress etc. I have a background in .NET so first opted for Blogengine.net which I don't think much of.
First question - I have windows hosting with m6.net and ixhosting.com. Both my accounts are IIS. With Wordpress I've had a few small PHP issues on IIS which I don't really understand. It means I have a url mydomain.com/index.php/pagename, where the index.php part ideally shouldn't be there. I also have problems with invalid URLs which should redirect to my main page but instead redirect to a page from the hosting provider.
I tried installing Drupal on my m6.net account a few months ago but couldn't get it working (not sure why). This is why I originally started using Wordpress.
The website I want to develop I don't have much of a budget for. If I can find some cheap bulk hosting for PHP then it could be worth doing as I have other websites in mind, but perhaps for now I should get hosting for a single website I try and get Drupal up and running?
Are there any cheap hosting providers that have Drupal already installed?
Or...
Should I be able to get it working well enough on one of my IIS accounts without any issues similar to those I've had with Wordpress?