The answer is to put something like Nginx in front of Apache. Let Nginx serve the static resources. Turn keep-alives off and let Apache serve the dynamic stuff.

The answer is to put something like Nginx in front of Apache. Let Nginx serve the static resources. Turn keep-alives off and let Apache serve the dynamic stuff. Also disable every module in a Apache that you don't know what it is doing and re-enable them as you understand them to make your site work.