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Ask HN: Where Are the Cheap Remote Desktop Services?
I want a service that would let me remote from anywhere in the world and have the same desktop. It would be $50 to $75 a year. At the very least, a desktop where I would run a specific app remotely that maintains its state. But I have not found one that's cheap. Yes, AWS has a service but it's not cheap.
I would love to buy a Chromebook and have it connect to a full app like Paintshop or whatever and never have to deal with a full desktop again.
We are getting to the point where a full desktop is less and less needed but it would be nice to have a service like that now. I figured by now it would be all over the place. Where are they?
- mattkrea 10y agoThey have all failed. OnLive Desktop was a great example of this. http://www.pcworld.com/article/253628/onlive_desktop_virtual_office_apps_on_your_ipad.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/253628/onlive_desktop_virtual...
- WheelsAtLarge 10y agoYes, thx for pointing it out. I had forgotten about it. All I can say is, "BRING IT BACK!" :)
- xxdesmus 10y agoUbuntu (or a similar OS) Desktop on a VPS? You won't get it for $75 a year most likely, but it wouldn't be all that much more. A DigitalOcean 1GB RAM VPS ($10/month) likely would be plenty as long as you use xfce.
- WheelsAtLarge 10y agoI'll try this. Sounds like an interesting project. thx!
- kjksf 10y agoThe cheapest I know is http://winity.io/ http://winity.io/ ($12/month i.e. $144/year). Your price expectation is unrealistic. At $50/year a provider would earn $500 after 10 years. That has to pay for the actual hardware, windows license, space in datacenter, power, bandwidth etc. It's a miracle that winity can provide their service for $144/year.
- WheelsAtLarge 10y agoThanks for the info. I'll look into them. I don't think my price point is that unrealistic. Who would have thought you would be able to buy a powerful handheld computer for less than $100? Yet we can. I get your point but it sure would be nice to have a cheap service.
- xxdesmus 10y agoCheck this out -- https://lowendbox.com/blog/is-it-possible-to-use-your-vps-as-a-virtual-workspace/ https://lowendbox.com/blog/is-it-possible-to-use-your-vps-as... -- it's pretty much exactly what you'd like to accomplish.
- WheelsAtLarge 10y agoThx, will do.