> 7: Profile your machine under parallel load. Note that machine simos
> (i.e. the kind you get from the ab utility) generally represent about 10
> to 20 real people. I.e. if your machine runs well with 20 machine simos,
> you can bet on it handling 100 or more real people with ease.
8. Use the Turck MMCache - it rocks. Works absolutely perfectly and
caches compiled versions of all your PHP scripts - cut the load on our
server by a factor of 5.