I am looking to hire someone to upgrade PHP and MySQL to the latest versions on my server and to install eaccelerator or APC (http://pecl.php.net/package/APC),
About how much would you charge?
Yes its a dedicated server and I do have root access.
Latest versions meaning from their respective websites, or the latest from RPM/SRPMs?
And I’d highly recommend xcache (http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/) (and yes it works with Apache as well as lighttpd) over eaccelerator or apc, unless you need a specific feature that they provide.