On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Nicholas MIller <nick.kyky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello > > I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I > am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. however I don't > know if I should be using a separate vmachine for each service. I am more > concerned about security than resource use. however the publicly reachable > IP I have is through an external vpn provider (i believe it is strong > vpn). any ideas suggestions would be appreciated. > There's really no reason you need another VM for each of those services. Make sure you have proper privilege separation and you should be fine. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/