"Acceptable" is different for different folks. I don't understand the general sentiment of either you have enterprise level performance or it's a fail. Not ever

"Acceptable" is different for different folks. I don't understand the general sentiment of either you have enterprise level performance or it's a fail. Not everyone is building next Facebook or Amazon and yet most developers think that they are and vastly overestimate their needs. Also most hosting provides already have fpm configured for you and if you need to do it yourself for your VPS then it's not complicated.