diff --git a/templates/default b/templates/default
index 1ee4966f..4a4c38a3 100644
--- a/templates/default
+++ b/templates/default
@@ -34,4 +34,6 @@
 
         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
 
+        KeepAliveTimeout 75
+        MaxKeepAliveRequests 1000
 </VirtualHost>
diff --git a/templates/default-ssl b/templates/default-ssl
index 71c05e3d..e619b137 100644
--- a/templates/default-ssl
+++ b/templates/default-ssl
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ NameVirtualHost *:{{ 443 }}
 {% endif %}
     Header set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
     Header set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
+    KeepAliveTimeout 75
+    MaxKeepAliveRequests 1000
     <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
             SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
     </FilesMatch>