There is a very interesting web page on how to improve performance of PHP applications:
http://phplens.com/lens/php-book/optimizing-debugging-php.php
There is also a page on Apache tuning for PHP:
http://php.weblogs.com/tuning_apache_unix
These may help in getting faster Moodle servers.
Hardware and performance
PHP optimization HOWTO
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