[Semibug] Install webstore on OpenBSD Server

[BCLUG]

Jonathan Drews wrote on 2023-07-27 14:58:

> All I can tell you is that I used Shells 
> (https://www.shells.com/l/en-US/  ), which is a virtual machine 
> hosing different desktop OS' (a mix of Windows and Linux)

Never heard of it.

> * It was buggy ( I ran Kubuntu on it)
> 
> * It was expensive
> 
> * The latency was terrible.
> 
> * There was no swap partition for my Linux install.
> 
> Shells installed the Kubuntu. Having no swap meant that when you ran
> out of RAM, the VM Kubutu locked up. It was only 2 MB of ram.

Sounds like a proprietary thing that bears little resemblance to actual 
VMs like KVM.


> My experience with Virtual machine hosting was truly underwhelming.
Yeah, with that setup, no wonder.

I can't even come up with an analogy to that experience vs running a VM 
(or bunch of them) on a proper computer, then accessing those VM-hosted 
services.

Probably most internet stuff we interact with day-to-day is run inside 
VMs or containers. The VPS that hosts my email server is one.

Probably the SMTP running lists.nycbug.org is inside some container too.


My Nextcloud, XMPP, and all my websites are inside a VM on a computer 
with a measly 16GB RAM which is also serving as my main desktop 
computer. (This is only since my actual server died; I'd prefer it 
separate.)

Works fine, does everything, even supports Jitsi / Zoom style meetings 
for multiple hours per day, multiple times per week.