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