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Configuring and watching Apache.

You may have noted that I installed the apache2-mpm-worker package rather than apache2-mpm-prefork even though I’m using a VPS to host the site.  If you google them you’ll find recommendations to only use worker on big beefed-up servers.  The reason for my decision is described in the first paragraph on worker’s webpage:
By using threads to [...]

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