[arch-general] how many virtual machines

[Kaiting Chen]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Nicholas MIller <nick.kyky at gmail.com> 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.

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