Why this guy hates Apache

On one of the Unix admin lists I'm on, at the end of a long day, this poor guy just about had it:

And this brings me to the next thing, noticing things. Who the hell set that
up? How could you not notice that it takes apache about 30 seconds to serve
the first page, because that's how long it takes to spawn a single child?
Did you ever look at the log files? How about this for noticing: Before I
fixed the configuration, everytime you restart apache it throws this HUGS
ASS ERROR MESSAGE into your face that says "Proceeding with undefined
results." at the end. What were you thinking when you ignored it? What about
the fact that some VirtualHosts were defined twice? Apache doesn't even
complain about that, it just silently chooses one, apparently at random.
Did anyone ever test the configuration? Notice how every directory with a
.htaccess file came back with Internal Server Error?

Worth the chuckle. I've had that feeling before.

The analytical side of me does wonder what specific version they are using, but I gather the hardware is flaky.

Wonder if Rich is accepting submissions to add to his list of things to hate for the lightning talks at ApacheCon next month.

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