note mbethke <blockquote><em>The 'database' is actually
textfiles. There are 3-4 XML documents used within the
application, XML::Simple opens and parses them. I appreciate the
response.</em></blockquote> So it sounds like you're running a
CGI that gets compiled every time and also loads and parses its
entire data set every time. That may well be the problem and
something like SQlite could bring a big boost there. And/or, as
others mentioned, FastCGI. 1054091 1054099