Yes, agreed, if we are talking about straight concurrency only. Other things like replication, are also not there, so it's not what I would choose for a websit

Yes, agreed, if we are talking about straight concurrency only. Other things like replication, are also not there, so it's not what I would choose for a website database, but if you can serve all your reads from one server, and don't care about high availability, then go for it.