Distribution DB on its own server

When would one consider to have the distribution database on another server
different from the publisher ?
When locking becomes a problem. There is no hard and fast rule, ie when you
get more than 1023 transactions per second, or you are running on a 2 Ghz
processor.
If you have a high load replication solution you might want to migrate to a
remote distributor from the start. However, you must keep in mind that if
the distributor goes down your tlogs can balloon, and it can be difficult,
but not impossible, to recover from.
Generally I like to remove this single point of failure and use a local
distribution database.
Hilary Cotter
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> When would one consider to have the distribution database on another
> server
> different from the publisher ?
>