The SharePoint 2010 sandbox solutions model truly allows for multiple tenants running on separate site collections to run individual pieces of custom functionality without affecting other site collections. SharePoint 2010 also has a variety of features you can use to configure how your sandbox solutions are going to run. Earlier in this chapter, in the Configuring web application settings recipe, we looked at how you can create custom quota templates which will be applied to new and existing web applications in your farm. One of the options available for the quota template is the ability to assign resource points to your sandbox solutions.
As your sandbox solutions become more popular in your environment, you can manage how many resources you want to allocate for some of the sandbox solutions compared to others and SharePoint will automatically take care of turning off the solution, if it exceeds its allocated limits.
If you think your users are...