So, I was thinking that my FC5 installation of LAMP was a bit slow, but as it turns out, there was a different cause. When I looked at the other domains that run on this box (kim-kong.com and mookiesplace.org), their PHP and MySQL speeds were fantastic. Page rendering was very quick (when I tested with ab). But, when it came to ultramookie.com, the page rendering was painfully slow! It took less than a second to render kim-kong.com, but took some 15 to 20 seconds to render ultramookie.com. Why? When I looked at top during the page render, mysql was floating to the top with 99% CPU usage! Gah! Not good, something was bottlenecking with the database, but what was it? It turns out that I was running a bunch of stats tracking plugins for WordPress. Once I turned these suckers off...wham! Page rendering was at less than a second for ultramookie.com. I don't think I'll bother to figure out which stats tracking plugin it was because I don't really use them anymore. But, I am glad that the page is rendering much quicker now. Enjoy the speed!