On 2025-06-09 14:42, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jun 2025 19:09:27 -0700 > 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. > > Can you find Linux based programs to create and edit videos? This would > be an excellent time to free yourself of Windows for good. > There is a ton of them. >> >> 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 doubt any kind of "cloud" (somebody else's computer) will compete > with what you call a "monster computer". It's the support and work. It is BIG pain to create a LAMP stack Ubuntu VM. I'm still analyzing my next step. > > Given that you've been working just fine with a couple old computers > with 16GB RAM and 500 to 1000GB of storage, I imagine a regular 6 core, > 12 thread computer with 64 GB RAM, 1TB NVMe and 10TB 72RPM spinning > rust will do you just fine. I tend to agree. > I put one of those together in 2020 for > about $2200, but today such a computer is pretty much a commodity, so > you can probably do it a lot cheaper. I normally keep my computers for > 5 years, so that would be less than $500 a year I spent on my computer. > You appear to keep you computers twice that interval, and the computer > would probably cost you $1800... Interesting point ==>> (would have been less before all this > tariff bullshit), You and I have seen this movie before. We were a victim of super high inflation in our youth. The reported 40% inflation over the past 4 years has stolen from my household, I figure we have lost upwards of $1500/month in buying power. I have not experienced anything I would id as a result of tariffs. > so you'll be paying $180/year for what you would > think is a blindingly fast computer that you can still be using 10 > years from now, long after your current two computers are unable to run > a current browser. Using old stuff is a necessity. Too little cash flow/buying power. > > And as far as your shared hosting accounts, those things get sold, and > the new owners destroy them, and your data becomes unavailable to you > but available to bad guys, and the price of shared hosting will > probably > increase with time. > No doubt. I've seen some slowdowns, however I have not seen any lost/compromised data. > Oh, and backups: If your win10 machine has a USB3 port, convert to > Linux, plug in a (non-seagate) USB driven hard disk, and use rsync. What do you mean by non-seagate? Have you had problems with Seagate drives? Good advice. I have more than a few Seagate Backup Plus USB drives. > >> >> I still need to record and edit videos. > > If you absolutely, positively can't record and edit videos on Linux, > then you need to buy a pretty good Win11 machine, and take the hit when > Win12 replaces Win11. I can do all I need on Linux. > >> I'm thinking I only need a simple laptop at that point - 4 cores, 32G >> of RAM, and an SSD drive, running Kubuntu. > > You can probably buy that hardware used, for under $600.00. Extra > points if you have a desktop format so you can actually repair, > maintain and enhance it. > Thanks for the advice!! Keith > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Spring 2023 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful > Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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