Very true. Note that the web page discusses load balancers in a few places. If you have such a setup, the LB is effectively acting as a client and so the TIME_

Very true. Note that the web page discusses load balancers in a few places. If you have such a setup, the LB is effectively acting as a client and so the TIME_WAITs will still pile up on one of your machines. If the load balancer can re-use the HTTP connections from LB<->web server with keepalives, then it will reduce them.