APC has a nice feature where you can store PHP variables in shared memory. We can use that for our config array. This takes us to *890* requests/second. Of course, we can take this further and also cache the result of the database query for 5 minutes. query($q,PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); $result = $res->fetchAll(); apc_store('result',$result,300); } catch (PDOException $e) { echo "Error!: " . $e->getMessage(); die(); } } return $result; } ?>]]> This takes us to *1080* requests/second. A final optimization is to get rid of an include file. Our *utils.inc* file was a bit useless. ]]> We can add those 2 functions to *model.inc* and remove the *require* call. Now we get: Compare with our original: