Airdrie, United Kingdom

Workstation RDP in Airdrie

A Windows desktop in the cloud, reachable over RDP from any machine you happen to be at.

Configure your workstation → Recommended from $155.45 USD / month
  • Windows desktop over RDP
  • Same price in all 24 locations
  • Administrator access
Input to pixel London
The path from a keypress to a frame on your screen A keypress travels from your keyboard to the workstation in London and a redrawn frame returns. Below, a scale shows the estimated network round trip against the roughly one hundred millisecond point at which delay starts to be felt; the encode, decode and display time that also contributes is marked as unmeasured. You press a key keyboard, mouse London redraws Frame arrives on your screen Where the time goes 8–16 ms network, estimated encode · decode · draw not measured ≈100 ms — where delay starts to be felt
8–16 ms estimated network round trip

The blue band is the network round trip, estimated from distance rather than measured. Encoding, decoding and drawing the frame add to it — that part we have not measured, so it is left unmarked rather than guessed.

Choose how the processor is shared

Every class ships the same hardware menu and the same Windows Desktop 11 64-bit image. What changes is how the processor is shared — and the price moves with it.

Availability

Budget friendly

Workable for light desktop use, but shared processor time shows up as stutter when several applications are open at once.


$144.45USD

per month

Configure

Dedicated

High performance

For heavy desktop work — design tools, large datasets, anything that pins the processor for minutes at a time.


$166.45USD

per month

Configure
Hourly only

Burstable

Occasional use

Suits occasional use. Book it for the hours you actually need a remote desktop and pay for nothing in between.


$0.3192USD

per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed

Book by the hour

Add memory or cores for a heavy project and take them off when it ships — the change is made by hand on the same machine, usually within the hour.

What a session actually costs

A remote desktop is sized differently from a server. The question is not how much traffic it serves but how many people are sitting in front of it at once, and what each of them has open.

Windows takes its share first

The operating system wants memory before any of your users do. Size the machine as Windows plus your sessions, not as your sessions alone.

Each session is a whole desktop

A browser with thirty tabs costs the same here as it does on a laptop. Concurrency is a memory question long before it is a processor one.

Distance is felt directly

On a server a slow round trip delays a response. On a workstation it delays your cursor, which is a far lower tolerance — host as close to yourself as you can.

Where your server runs

All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server. Pick the region closest to you, not to your customers. This is the one machine where you feel the round trip yourself — it is the difference between a desktop that responds and one that lags behind your typing.

Europe, Middle East & Africa coverage 8 live
Europe, Middle East & Africa data centre locations 8 locations across Europe, Middle East & Africa, with London marked as the closest to Airdrie. London Airdrie

Airdrie is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Airdrie ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 547 km 8–16 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 697 km 10–21 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 1,059 km 16–32 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 1,362 km 20–41 ms
Milan, Italy 1,478 km 22–44 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,718 km 26–52 ms
Bucharest, Romania 2,464 km 37–74 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 3,988 km 60–120 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 5,198 km 78–156 ms
Toronto, Canada 5,298 km 79–159 ms
Chicago, United States 5,918 km 89–178 ms
Atlanta, United States 6,391 km 96–192 ms
Miami, United States 6,816 km 102–204 ms
Seattle, United States 7,164 km 107–215 ms
Dallas, United States 7,211 km 108–216 ms
Santa Clara, United States 8,113 km 122–243 ms
Los Angeles, United States 8,250 km 124–247 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 6,895 km 103–207 ms
Mumbai, India 7,448 km 112–223 ms
Kolkata, India 8,089 km 121–243 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,269 km 139–278 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,565 km 143–287 ms
Singapore 10,979 km 165–329 ms
Sydney, Australia 16,919 km 254–508 ms

Distances are from Airdrie. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.

Windows desktop, reachable over standard RDP

Administrator access from day one

Daily off-server backups

Your files stay put between sessions

Included with every Workstation RDP server, in every class, at every location.

Remote desktop hosting for Airdrie

We host servers for companies throughout Airdrie, Scotland and the rest of United Kingdom. You tell us what the server is for, we build it by hand, and you get access and the login details the same working day.

London is our closest location at 547 km, which makes it the usual starting point. If the people using the server are somewhere else, host it somewhere else — every location costs the same.

Workstation RDP in Airdrie — FAQs

Should I pick the location nearest me?
Yes — and this is the one product where that is true. You feel the round trip yourself on every keystroke and every mouse movement, so the closest location is almost always the right one. London is 547 km from Airdrie, an estimated 8–16 ms.
How many people can share one desktop?
That depends on what they are running, and we would rather size it with you than quote a figure we have not tested. As a rule each concurrent session wants its own memory on top of what Windows itself uses — tell us how many people and what software, and we will work it out.
Which Windows version do I get?
It ships as Windows Desktop 11, and you can ask for a different Windows Desktop or Windows Server edition at build time. Administrator access from the first login, so you install what you like.
Do my files survive between sessions?
Yes. This is a machine, not a session on a shared pool — it keeps running when you disconnect, and everything is where you left it when you come back.
How much does it cost in Airdrie?
From $144.45 USD per month, with $155.45 USD on General purpose the usual choice for a workstation. The same prices apply in all 24 locations.

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