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Originally Posted by Sly
I'm trying to lighten my in office footprint and make my operation more mobile, yet running on one laptop would not suffice. Below is the idea that I came up with.
I use Team Viewer and Remote Desktop to login to various local and remote personal computers on a daily basis, and while the lag is noticeable, it's not a big deal for many tasks.
I was thinking about getting a Windows Server at a data center, use Team Viewer or Remote Desktop to access it and use it as an additional PC. Download and manipulate large files, light video/graphic editing, so on and so forth.
Thoughts?
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I have same needs, + I need some link building tools running 24x7 on fast uplink so I got this spec from
this guy (Hostamus):
i5-3570S
16GB RAM
1TB Hard Drive
Win server 2008 R2, 1Gbps port, unmetered.
$125/mo, located in Canada. They also have same deal in Europe, France.
You have to pick location close to you - less lag. You can really feel those milliseconds piling up.
Most of the soft will run on it BUT there will be plenty smart ones that will give you a finger saying that "you can't install this on server, need proper licence"...
Then again, there are plenty "open offices" out there or even google docs to do the most tricks for you. Not sure about video editing - it does require 3d graphics and servers usually have crap in there, just enough to spit out screen.
P.S. Two years ago I had such box with Win7 Pro - remote desktop. Maybe no need for "server" licence, I guess everyone has spare Win7 lying around...