[HCoop-Discuss] Reorganizing, people-wise and tech-wise

[Adam Chlipala]

John T. Settino wrote:
>> I agree that this is a very attractive benefit of virtualization, and 
>> perhaps it's the only benefit that's really relevant to our near-term 
>> plans.  (Being able to transfer virtual machines across physical servers 
>> might make the list, too.)
>>
>>   
> Very attractive indeed, sir. You might even be able to allow 
> .htaccess, because Apache won't take down the rest of the server(s)!

That's not relevant.  The issue is only with bringing Apache down.  
Apache has a fixed number of worker processes, and it will grind to a 
halt if all of those are caught up handing recursive requests.