Well, the package that's received from their site has the default of 512, 2048 is more than capable for your config (in fact, this script shows a warning of anything below that value).
MOST users are on shared hosts, which means they generally cannot edit this value (and a lot of fly by night hosts just install things vs messing with their default values).
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