Best way to zip up folders on remote?

https://forum.rclone.org/t/need-help-uploading-very-large-folders-larger-than-free-space/24574
https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-encryption-to-individual-zip-7z-archives/19371
https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-compression-zip-rar-and-data-transfer/30942

do not think so.

could rent a cheap cloud vm from gdrive, run rclone mount on that.