Today I learned something new: Drupal on shared hosting OK

Thanks whoever commented on the post below:

• Overlay
• Dashboard
• Context Links (this required by Commerce I think but I can skip the other two)

save a lot of memory if disabled.

Thanks whoever posted on https://drupal.org.uk/node/322

• Several shared hosts do survive the memory demands of Drupal
• There's one in North Carolina that specialises in Drupal and one in Purley. The thread attracts some people who want support email or phone support and some who have someone else to pay the bill, so it's hard to compare recommendations.
• Meanwhile Heliohost.org enable one free account per user if it's active. The server is a testbed rather than a hotbed, with maximim add-ons and minimal constraints but 205 other users - few of them active - which this tool shows on a machine in Sacremento, California, routed via Frankfurt to me here in London.

Thanks to two pieces I've skim-read a bit at the start and still learned from.

• I discovered caching for Drupal.
  "Shared server - no Varnish, no Memcache or APC" on a "case study disaster" told at Drupaldownunder was the clue. Now I know how a database driven site can be made to work as well as a plain html site: you add a cache so that it becomes almost an html site. I have managed to install Memcache; Varnish might not be ready for novices yet and one called "Boost" requries a snippet of .php added to the settings file. Does this need the opening and closing tags? Best avoided for novices just for a while. Evan as I type this I discover "content delivery networks" from skim-reading parts of the same lecture timetable. If I type ".nyud.net" after the domain part of the host for these apes, they load quicker!
• I discovered that Drupal doesn't let you delete the settings.php file from a previous installation unless you use an FTP program to do it. Discovered from a blog in Australia - just a glance at the first couple of paragraphs confirmed the problem and its solution.
• https://drupal.org/node/326504 about scalability looks relevant

So. Lots of little things come right in the world sometimes and I will not try to get a job as a bonobo monkey ape in a zoo.

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