Maximum number of apps. on IIS?

Is there a maximum (reasonable) number of applications that can/should be
hosted on a single IIS? I am CONSIDERING deploying hundreds (thousands?) of
similar apps on a server. Obviously, the workload of each app would be quite
light. If I did this, would it:
a) work?
b) have significantly worse performance than if the same total workload was
targeted at a single app.? (Let's assume cacheing isn't used in either
scenario).
(trust me, I will only do it this way if I really have to, but would like
information on the above for my consideration).
Thanks,
Paul.I can't speak from personal experience, but this scenario would require
testing both ways and take some metrics of the server processor usage and
memory usage (disk hits, etc). Optimization is not a Server Administrator
checklist. It is an ambiguous art. Good luck!
Best regards,
Jeffrey Palermo
"Paul W" <qqq@.qqq.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a maximum (reasonable) number of applications that can/should be
> hosted on a single IIS? I am CONSIDERING deploying hundreds (thousands?)
of
> similar apps on a server. Obviously, the workload of each app would be
quite
> light. If I did this, would it:
> a) work?
> b) have significantly worse performance than if the same total workload
was
> targeted at a single app.? (Let's assume cacheing isn't used in either
> scenario).
> (trust me, I will only do it this way if I really have to, but would like
> information on the above for my consideration).
> Thanks,
> Paul.
>