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 <[email protected]> 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
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