Object cache everywhere WordPress tries to reduce the number of database queries as much as possible. For example, anytime you get a meta field or a taxonomy field, before querying the database, WordPress looks if that that was already queried and stored in cache, and returns it from there instead of querying the database. The … Read more
Clearly nothing scales as well as static files served by a fast web server and any CMS that has to figure out what to load and then load it will not perform as well, WordPress or otherwise. One of the issues is the number of database queries required per URL request and my 2 prior … Read more
You could install WordPress on Nginx. There are a number of resources to help: nginx Compatibility plugin HOWTO: Install WordPress On Nginx– Slicehost discussion How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress Some performance information … Read more