Sharing resources, practical? (webfarm)

I wonder what would be better.
Two ASP.NET applications sharing the same database or combine both
applications as one application (1 directory)?
We will write two applications but all the database and files stuff is
located in a separate folder.
This folder shall not belong to one of the app's but all stuff IS located on
the same server.
:)Anyone?
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>I wonder what would be better.
> Two ASP.NET applications sharing the same database or combine both
> applications as one application (1 directory)?
> We will write two applications but all the database and files stuff is
> located in a separate folder.
> This folder shall not belong to one of the app's but all stuff IS located
> on the same server.
> :)
>