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Hello, fellow Apache user! You may wish to look into Nginx. My Japanese toilet seat practically has enough memory on it to serve all my business needs.

One of these days I have to migrate all of my Apache-hosted Wordpress blogs to Nginx.

Yeah, nginx is my favorite web server as well. I use it for my startup, and I'm in the process of migrating all my blogs from a 1GB slice with Apache, to a 4GB server in the cloud with nginx. With that I should be ready for virtually any amount of traffic my tech site may get.

" You may wish to look into Nginx"

I second this. For years I tried to tame the beast that is Apache. After switching to nginx I could not be happier.

maybe you are running out of tcp connections

Apache default install sucks. install MPM worker or MPM event and it should fly.

Interestingly it's not a default installation. It's an installation that, in the past, I fine-tuned with great success. That said, it has been less than satisfactory over the past few weeks.