Of course you can. In the days of CGI scripts, we forked a full process per request, never mind a thread. I'd wager that the great majority of Web apps (i.e.,

Of course you can. In the days of CGI scripts, we forked a full process per request, never mind a thread. I'd wager that the great majority of Web apps (i.e., the not-terribly-busy ones) would scale reasonably well on thread-per-request.