There's a quick solution and that is in buying more actual hardware to boost your server performance. Things such as faster HD and larger (also faster) memory chips. Another option is to purchase another server and set up a 'round robin' system. In such a system, you'll have 2 main servers and one extra PC to serve as a load balancer. All request to your sites come through that load balancer. It's job is simply to monitor the loads on both supporting 'web' servers and direct traffic where it will be accomodated the best.

Aside from this, you've got to have a close estimate of specific components involved in your system and their cost in terms of overall performance. mod_perl could generally be optimized pretty well to handle even 100 symultaneous sessions. Check out this mod_perl: Performance Tuning article for example. You should find quite a few things that you might of missed from your existing set up. Just add those ones and see your performance improve! ;-)

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