I am pretty obssessive about the speed of my web server, and I’m also pretty much a “throw more hardware at the problem” kind of person. So I had Seth Dillingham arrange to upgrade the motherboard and processor, so now this site is running on a 1.4ghz Athlon — before today it was running on a 750mhz Athlon.
The results — most pages load twice as fast, and some of the more processor intensive pages load 3 to 4 times as fast. Excellent.
Right now I’m feeling a bit like some video game character who just ran over a power-up. Next up — upgrading to 1.5 gig of RAM and a 15K SCSI drive.