When creating a dynamic website, the time it takes to create a page requires a proper (large enough) timeout or Apache will generate a 500 error even before the system has a chance to reply one byte.

Snap!, like many other content manager systems (CMS), will generate the entire page before sending anything back to the client. There are several reasons for doing this:

1. The system is generating HTML which we want to compress before sending it to clients;
2. The system likes to define the Content-Size header because it allows browsers to show clients how much of the data it already ...