# Would separate IP addresses help?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-separate-ip-addresses-help/19003>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [18 Agosto , 2014 16:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-separate-ip-addresses-help/19003 "2014-08-18T16:25:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomosovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@tomosovich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomosovich)\
**Post date:** [18 Agosto , 2014 16:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-separate-ip-addresses-help/19003/1 "2014-08-18T16:25:26Z")

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First off, I love the software. Been using it for about a month now and just moved it to its permanent home.

I will be installing the main site this week and was wondering if using different ip addresses would smooth the co existence of the forum and website/cms or if I should just follow the nginx proxy setup?

I would also like to host other ruby applications as this is what I am currently learning and when the apps are ready for production they will move to my main host.

I’ve been using digital ocean to spin up dev environments quickly because it’s fast to start over if I break stuff.

Possible things that would run with the discourse install would be redmine, wordpress, locomotive, or a simple bootstrap website.

Thanks to all of you who have helped me. I will be adding more contributions soon and hope to give back to the community in any way I can.

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