LA Drupal manager Christefano (@christefano ) presents at the LA Drupal (@ladrupal ) meetup on August 31, 2010 and gives a long but fast-paced introduction to how to get the most out of shared hosting. Covered in this presentation is a brief overview of the categories of webhosting (shared, VPS and dedicated), the various pitfalls of using low cost shared hosting with Drupal and general tips on how to improve site performance. Included is a walkthrough of the Boost module, avoiding the contrib module buffet syndrome and how to profile site performance with the Devel module module for Drupal and the YSlow extension for Firefox. Less