[lloydatkinson]

Yeah, I did suggest nginx in the past for this project and I think I'll consider it after this saga. For now I've set pretty low limits on Apache.

[toast0]

Apache itself is fine. Just need to set MaxClients/MaxRequestWorkers equal to StartServers and MaxSpareThreads (assuming prefork), so that all the forking happens at start up. Similar things for other mpms, I assume.