diff --git a/Containers/apache/Dockerfile b/Containers/apache/Dockerfile
index 8230aa7e..828cbcaf 100644
--- a/Containers/apache/Dockerfile
+++ b/Containers/apache/Dockerfile
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ RUN set -ex; \
         /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf; \
     echo "Include conf/nextcloud.conf" | tee -a /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf; \
     echo "ServerName localhost" | tee -a /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf; \
+# Sync this with max db connections and pm.max_children
+# We don't actually expect so many workers but don't want to limit it artificially because people will report issues otherwise.
+    sed -i 's|MaxRequestWorkers.*|MaxRequestWorkers 5000|' /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf; \
+    grep -q '<IfModule mpm_event_module>' /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf; \
+# ServerLimit needs to be set to MaxRequestWorkers divided by ThreadsPerChild which is set to 25 by default
+    sed -i '/<IfModule mpm_event_module>/a\ \ \ \ ServerLimit 200' /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf; \
     \
     rm -rf /usr/local/apache2/conf/original /var/www; \
     mkdir -p /var/www; \
diff --git a/Containers/nextcloud/Dockerfile b/Containers/nextcloud/Dockerfile
index dfe06d5f..01bb9d22 100644
--- a/Containers/nextcloud/Dockerfile
+++ b/Containers/nextcloud/Dockerfile
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ RUN set -ex; \
     \
     grep -q '^pm = dynamic' /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
     sed -i 's/^pm = dynamic/pm = ondemand/' /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
-# Sync this with max db connections
+# Sync this with max db connections and MaxRequestWorkers
 # We don't actually expect so many children but don't want to limit it artificially because people will report issues otherwise.
 # Also children will usually be terminated again after the process is done due to the ondemand setting
     sed -i 's/^pm.max_children =.*/pm.max_children = 5000/' /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
diff --git a/Containers/postgresql/start.sh b/Containers/postgresql/start.sh
index 2a7b6845..4ae7369f 100644
--- a/Containers/postgresql/start.sh
+++ b/Containers/postgresql/start.sh
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ fi
 if [ -f "/var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf" ]; then
     echo "Setting postgres values..."
 
+    # Sync this with max pm.max_children and MaxRequestWorkers
     # 5000 connections is apparently the highest possible value with postgres so set it to that so that we don't run into a limit here.
     # We don't actually expect so many connections but don't want to limit it artificially because people will report issues otherwise
     # Also connections should usually be closed again after the process is done