Turn off images on the client.
Turn off Java on the client.
Turn off cache validation on the client.
Put more RAM on the server.
Put more RAM on the client.
Don’t use CGIs.
Buy a better connection to the Internet.
Let a professional host your server.
On a LAN, if you can cache static content in RAM, you can probably serve it at full network speed. If you can’t cache content, then your disk is probably the bottleneck.
On the Internet, the Internet is usually the bottleneck; the next bottlenecks are CGI startup and database queries.
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