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So, you went and got yourself a SocialEngine[social-engine-programmer/] site, huh? Built that little online community you've been dreaming of for years? Now you have more than 50 users and your VPS or Colo can't keep up? You, my friend, need to learn some SocialEngine optimization techniques.

Wow...I didn't know that there were still PHP/MySQL sites (let alone those powered by Joomla! 1.5) that were taking *any* appreciable time to generate nowadays. Until a client came to us saying that his Joomla! 1.5 powered news site was taking 7 to 10 seconds, to generate a page, and up to 20 seconds to download the page.