Best Practice on installing Workflow Manager on a separate box

Hi,
We are installing Workflow Manager 1.0 to work with our SP2013 farm, which is fairly simple.
However we anticipate a significant  amount of workflow work in the future. 
Could you please share your thoughts/experience/lessons learnt on Having WF Manager on a separate box compared to having it on the same box as SP2013 Front end server in terms of
1. Scalability
2. Stability 
3. Ease of Installation/Management  
etc
Thanks a lot.
Dineth

Hi Dineth,
Thanks for posting your query,
Kindly browse the below mentioned URLs to know about the best practices and installation step by step
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj730571%28v=azure.10%29.aspx
http://www.sjoukjezaal.com/blog/2014/05/sharepoint-2013-workflows-part-2-installing-and-configuring-the-workflow-manager/
I hope this is helpful to you, mark it as Helpful.
If this works, Please mark it as Answered.
Regards,
Dharmendra Singh (MCPD-EA | MCTS)
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