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by astrange 1475 days ago
> Creating one thread for every request you have ( Apache + PHP ) will exhaust the hardware after a few thousands/qps target.

PHP installations more realistically use nginx and FastCGI. This is not one thread per request and it’s also a better design than hosting your entire server and every user request in the same process; that’s just asking for security issues.