This can also lead to DOS issues, as I understand it, the Apache server-status pages are very computationally intensive to produce, and it requires stopping and

This can also lead to DOS issues, as I understand it, the Apache server-status pages are very computationally intensive to produce, and it requires stopping and polling every child. Something like <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 10.0.0.0/24 </Location> (where 10.0.0.0 is your local network range) will prevent external requests. This is mentioned in the linked through Apache documentation.