• Frequently, yes. Because you're going to lavish attention on that instance, know when it's running, possibly set up some type of high availability for it, etc. Yes, if you have money to spend, separating them out to more than one server is a good thing. But managing multiple instances on a single server is frequently more trouble than it's worth.

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