On Apr 3, 2012 3:59 PM, "Kaiting Chen" <kaitocracy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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/ please correct me if I'm wrong but running each service as it's own user without access to anything it doesn't need it's what you mean? and this might be a stupid ? but do you agree with your statement still if I need to use nfs reachable outside my home network