Advanced Performance Techniques

Back to basics

The speed of your site depends partly on the HTML, and partly on the hardware/software that it runs on.  If you mainly serve static HTML pages, consider changing to a NT/IIS combination.  If you serve mainly dynamic content, consider a Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL combination.  Research CPU and memory considerations, too, especially if your web server is noticeably struggling at peak times in the day.  Separate database servers, and Load balancing considerations, should be amongst the items you should research.