Hi, there is few tips which you can find in those O'Reilly Media books:
1) "Web Performance Daybook Volume 2"
2) "Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets"
3) "High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers"
4) "Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers"
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p.s.
First, you should optimize the site to reduce the memory usage with caching.
Second, uninstall unnecessary modules.
Third, enable gzip.
Fourth, upgrade to PHP 5.3 if not done so yet