Correct, I did not want to have any influence over the results of the "out of box" testing as many users on these platforms won't even know how to tweak the OS

Correct, I did not want to have any influence over the results of the "out of box" testing as many users on these platforms won't even know how to tweak the OS and Apache on a low level. But as mentioned, I will be making some of the suggested tweaks to ALL of the platforms and rerunning the tests and posting a follow-up on that as well. I will make sure everything is as uniform as possible. If there is anything specific I should be aware of please let me know, thanks! -Chad