Ames, United States
Workstation RDP in Ames
A Windows desktop in the cloud, reachable over RDP from any machine you happen to be at.
- ✓ Windows desktop over RDP
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Administrator access
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
ConfigureGeneral purpose
The usual choice
Enough consistency that the desktop stays responsive while you work.
$155.45USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
For heavy desktop work — design tools, large datasets, anything that pins the processor for minutes at a time.
$166.45USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourAdd 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.
Ames is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Ames ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 496 km | 7–15 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,067 km | 16–32 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,173 km | 18–35 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,225 km | 18–37 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,640 km | 25–49 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,187 km | 33–66 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,321 km | 35–70 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,333 km | 35–70 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,468 km | 37–74 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,702 km | 101–201 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,940 km | 104–208 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,134 km | 107–214 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,141 km | 107–214 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,300 km | 110–219 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,649 km | 115–229 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,687 km | 130–261 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,232 km | 153–307 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,818 km | 147–295 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,114 km | 182–363 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,310 km | 185–369 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,828 km | 192–385 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,080 km | 196–392 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,395 km | 216–432 ms |
| Singapore | 14,882 km | 223–446 ms |
Distances are from Ames. 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 Ames
We host servers for companies throughout Ames, IA and the rest of United States. 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.
Chicago is our closest location at 496 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 Ames — FAQs
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