Is InDesign Server licensed per instance or per machine?

[Jonathan22014930i1t1]

Hi, we have an InDesign server license, the limited version for a totally in house solution.

What I can't understand from any searches, is whether we can run two or more instances on one server in order to increase throughput, so is the licensing:

1.  Per machine/server, so we can run say two instances on one server, but not two servers with one instance each, or
2.  Per instance - so if we want to run two instances of InDesign server on different ports on the same machine, we'd have to pay for another license.

Does anybody know the answer please?

[Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted solution]

It's per machine - you can run as many instances on your machine as it can handle. 

[Jonathan22014930i1t1]

Awesome - thanks! That'll make life much easier.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

But without extra software - that should handle creating instances - InDesign Server is rather useless. 

[Jonathan22014930i1t1]

Hi, yes we're scripting it with UXP and using Hangfire to handle the job queuing & submission.

InDesign server is running as a windows service so I'll just figure out how to run more instances, whether you can run multiple under one process, or you have to have a process per InDesign server instance.

It'd be best if we could launch a different amout of instances based on config, but I needed to know whether we were allowd to run multiple instances before I started working on it.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You can start as many instances as you need / your machine can handle - but it doesn't mean that you need to start them at once - you can start / end instances on demand.