diff --git a/lib/apache b/lib/apache
index f438407aca..e36d0c998f 100644
--- a/lib/apache
+++ b/lib/apache
@@ -173,11 +173,7 @@ function restart_apache_server {
     # Apache can be slow to stop, doing an explicit stop, sleep, start helps
     # to mitigate issues where apache will claim a port it's listening on is
     # still in use and fail to start.
-    time_start "restart_apache_server"
-    stop_service $APACHE_NAME
-    sleep 3
-    start_service $APACHE_NAME
-    time_stop "restart_apache_server"
+    restart_service $APACHE_NAME
 }
 
 # reload_apache_server