The issue: Most content is not dynamic content! 90% of the time your website generates the same data again Each requests results in the same database results 90% of the performance of your server is to perform useles work The solution: Caching, caching, caching Think how often your content (or pieces of it) is regenerated Cache it in between! Think about publishing based caching Good caching classes eZ Cache (http://ez.no/products/ez_components) Cache_Lite (http://pear.php.net/Cache_Lite