I'm hoping that there's a way to host the Magento admin panel on a different box than I host the rest of my Magento install on. I'm not so worried about URLs - I can reverse proxy /admin in my web server config or use a subdomain.
The goal is to better manage resources for what is essentially two different sites - the admin panel and the store front end - and not have admin panel usage impact the web store.
Please let me know if your answer is theoretical or based on experience.
Cheers.