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Question Advice needed setting up a barebones VPS

I just got a barebones VPS (Debian), I want to use this for the following:

-Email and Newsgroups (Using Alpine)
-IM (Using CenterIM)
-Webhost (using lighttpd)
-Private proxy (Using SSH port forwarding) (using Putty on my desktop)

So far I have installed:

-Lighttpd
-Bind9
-Postfix

1- Will the packages I have installed be enough to achieve what I want once I have configured them properly?


2- I have also noticed that attempting to use the VPS as a proxy with port forwarding does not work (nothing happens), I do not know if this is because I need to open some port on the VPS, I am using 8080, browsing with lynx/elinks works fine.

I am using Localport 5000 (which I have open) and remote port (8080) Maybe I need Bind9 configured for this to work I do not know.

Thank you for feedback
 
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dtc-xen_migrate(8)					      System Manager's Manual						dtc-xen_migrate(8)

NAME
dtc-xen_migrate - migrate a VPS to another Xen server SYNOPSIS
LOCAL_VPS_ID DESTINATION_HOSTNAME [ DEST_VPS_ID ] DESCRIPTION
dtc-xen_migrate This shell script is a part of the dtc-xen package that is to be used by the dtc panel to manage a Xen VPS server. Note that you need rsync in both the source and the destination dom0. This script is used to move the content of a Xen virtual machine (VM) managed with dtc-xen to another Xen server of the same type. The VM destination will first be prepared, then the local VM will be shut down, then it's content will be transfered over using rsync. Note that this is NOT a live migration, and down time of approximatively the time needed for the rsync will occure. PARAMETERS
LOCAL_VPS_ID The DTC-Xen id of the VM, from 00 to 99. DESTINATION_HOSTNAME Destination Xen server hostname to migrate to. DEST_VPS_ID Destination DTC-Xen id of the VM, from 00 to 99. EXAMPLE
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dtc_reinstall_os(8), dtc_kill_vps_disk(8) dtc-xen_migrate(8)