It's perfectly valid to say "this is what you get out of the box" which is how a large proportion of people are going to be running their servers. Admittedly,

It's perfectly valid to say "this is what you get out of the box" which is how a large proportion of people are going to be running their servers. Admittedly, not a lot of people are going to be both running a server in a default configuration and having to deal with C10K, but slashdotting can happen to anyone.