Hi Stephen,
On 2025-06-09 06:50, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> My process was to set up a home lab server running Proxmox
> (Debian-based VMhost) to run VMs and containers. You can then offload
> much of what you want to do to that machine.
I have a Proxmox install.
>
> You can do what you are thinking remotely, but it may be more
> expensive than you want it to be.
I'm looking at a mid range shared hosting plan that starts out @
$2.99/month for 36 months then it goes up to $16.50/month.
I probably will fully retire in 10 years. Given these numbers if I save
$1300 on my home lab I might just break even.
I can create a LAMP vm on Proxmox or VirtualBox, however that is time
consuming. I am a PHP developer so I really do not need much.
By using shared hosting I can offload all the Linux server admin to the
shared hosting provider, leaving me to do programming stuff.
Any downsides of this approach?
- Keith
>
> And as I have heard before, 'cloud' just means someone else's
> computer.
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 10:15 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
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