"Install Apache with your web application running under mod_php, mod_perl or some other persistence engine for your language. Then you get famous and start getting emails about people not being able to access your website."
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From How to handle 1000′s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS.
Seriously, Apache + mod_php (and probably MySQL) is the easier way to start serving web pages, but it is also the easier way to start having problems when your server is under some load.
Some customers ask us stuff like how many web sites can I host in a 512MB RAM VPS?, as if there was a simple answer for that. But, actually… there is a simple answer: if you’re asking that question, probably none.
I’ve seen so many times people blaming Wordpress, Dokeos, Magento, etc, when the problem is Apache. Oh, I know… it isn’t Apache but the system administrator behind it, but there should be some amount of responsibility when correctly configuring Apache seems to be so complicated…
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