[billpatrianakos]

No matter how many people stress this very important point there will still be people crying over performance during sleepless nights spent thinking about the one in a million chance that their server will be burdened by some ungodly amount of traffic. I've even been guilty of it on servers that get 14 hits a day (and that's on a good day)!

I disagree that each deployment is unique though. In theory each deployment should be unique but most people just go with the defaults their hosting provider suggests, others don't have control over those setting (shared hosts) and still others just use the htaccess file that comes with html5BP and leave it at that. There's a ton of people That have a majority of the modules enabled but neither use them or know what they do too. I've been guilty of it before too. Maybe around these parts it's safe to say each deployment is unique but out in the wild you tend to see a lot of the same.