Installing and upgrading help

@Billy,
> A VPS is supposed to give you root access (from most hosts)

That is how I understand VPS. Wikipedia comes close to it: "A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS. "

> however with siteground I was not provided root access and had to delegate those commands to their support team.

Then it could be a _managed_ VPS. I don't know (I know only VPS with full root-access.) In any case, I would call a place, where I need to take permission before doing fully genuine things, _private_.

@Ken

"Semi-dedicated" https://www.siteground.com/semi_dedicated_hosting.htm ? Like part-time honest? Too much for me!
;-?