- especially when you plan to use shell executor with GitLab
[security reasons](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/security/), especially when you plan to use shell executor with GitLab
Runner.
We recommend using a separate machine for each GitLab Runner, if you plan to
use the CI features.
The GitLab Runner server requirements depend on:
- The type of [executor](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/) you configured on GitLab Runner.
- Resources required to run build jobs.
- Job concurrency settings.
Since the nature of the jobs varies for each use case, you will need to experiment by adjusting the job concurrency to get the optimum setting.
For reference, GitLab.com's [auto-scaling shared runner](../user/gitlab_com/index.md#shared-runners) is configured so that a **single job** will run in a **single instance** with: