Theoretically yes. Pragmatically no. There comes a point when it makes more sense to scale sideways (more OS instances) instead of up (more processes on beefier

Theoretically yes. Pragmatically no. There comes a point when it makes more sense to scale sideways (more OS instances) instead of up (more processes on beefier hardware). It's no secret that Apache isn't the leanest of HTTP daemons, but that's really a separate point to the argument of whether you can reasonably argue a process as a web server.