safe to setup NAS in virtual image with web server?
- by Erik
My current setup is Ubuntu Desktop, running Apache + MySQL + PHP stack.  I use this image to host my small website to the outside world.  
I want to now run a virtual machine on the box, that will act as the FreeNAS box for my internal network.  This sounds like a bad idea if the website gets hacked/attacked.  Should I just give up and grab a dedicated machine instead?  Can I instead virtualize the web server and NAS side by side on this machine?