One of the configuration items that an administrator has more control over is the ability to dedicate a host address to a specific crawl database. A crawl database contains data related to the location of content sources and crawl schedules. It may be a benefit to the user base that certain content is indexed more frequently in order to be fresher.
This is done through host distribution rules. A database can be dedicated to a server (or host).
In this recipe, we will create a host distribution rule.
You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site.
There must be at least two crawl databases. Create the second crawl database as shown in the previous recipe, except checking of the box under Dedicate Database.
