Hi David, I am thinking of using shared hosting in place of Virtual Box. - Keith On 2025-06-08 20:12, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Is it even possible to run a VirtualBox instance on a simple shared web > hosting account without root access? > > I’d love to see that! > > -David Schwartz > > > > >> On Jun 8, 2025, at 7:09 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Currently I am running Kubuntu on a 10 year old Dell that I upgraded >> to 16GB of RAM (Years ago) and an SSD drive. >> >> I have an old laptop running Win10 that came with a NVMe SSD and I >> have since upgraded to 16G of RAM and I added a 500G laptop hard drive >> (I have several just laying around). >> >> On the Win box I installed VirtualBox which allows me to create >> different vhosts (lamp). I also use the Win box for recording videos >> as well editing. >> >> I wrote an Amazon S3 PHP SDK script that allows me to backup my >> production websites. >> >> I was thinking at some point in the future I was going to build a >> monster computer to do all these things. >> >> Now I am thinking I can buy a simple shared hosting account and >> offload the VBox. I can make a subdomain for each of my projects and >> configure my Amazon S3 PHP SDK script to backup each project >> >> I still need to record and edit videos. >> >> I'm thinking I only need a simple laptop at that point - 4 cores, 32G >> of RAM, and an SSD drive, running Kubuntu. >> >> Your Thoughts? >> >> - Keith >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss