[brianwawok]

I do this in prod, you just need to take extra steps to protect. i.e. make a firewall rule on the database to only allow access to the database port on your private network card, from your specific web IPs (and make sure the traffic is encrypted).

[jlgaddis]

I'd probably create static ARP entries as well.

[CoachRufus87]

Thanks for the info!