Drawback to creating a separate IIS application pool for each website / application?

I doubt they were built with that requirement in mind unless they rely on shared memory for some reason. Otherwise, for the scenario described...

Besides the configuration time and (maybe) more memory requirements there is no down side to using more than one App Pool.

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