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
>> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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
(text/plain)