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Complexity
Building your infrastructure upon a one application per server basis was the best practice for
enterprises for many decades as it made troubleshooting easier. This is why even still it is a good idea
to limit one major mission critical system per box. The more applications let alone tenants you have
competing for resources simply muddies the waters making troubleshooting and quick remediation
almost impossible. Consider for example that you have a large server hosting several VPS client’s
applications all of which may be mission critical. With a dedicated server if the application has failed
it can be easily restarted or the system rebooted but can you do that with a multi-tenant system?