Vancouver, United States

Workstation RDP in Vancouver

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 Seattle
The path from a keypress to a frame on your screen A keypress travels from your keyboard to the workstation in Seattle 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 Seattle redraws Frame arrives on your screen Where the time goes 3–7 ms network, estimated encode · decode · draw not measured ≈100 ms — where delay starts to be felt
3–7 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.

Americas coverage 9 live
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Seattle marked as the closest to Vancouver. Seattle Vancouver

Vancouver is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Vancouver ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Seattle, United States 220 km 3–7 ms
Santa Clara, United States 923 km 14–28 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,342 km 20–40 ms
Dallas, United States 2,630 km 39–79 ms
Chicago, United States 2,821 km 42–85 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,389 km 51–102 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,491 km 52–105 ms
New York, United States 3,922 km 59–118 ms
Miami, United States 4,356 km 65–131 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 7,791 km 117–234 ms
Hong Kong, China 10,533 km 158–316 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,522 km 173–346 ms
Kolkata, India 11,808 km 177–354 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,349 km 185–370 ms
Mumbai, India 12,650 km 190–379 ms
Singapore 13,085 km 196–393 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Stockholm, Sweden 7,805 km 117–234 ms
London, United Kingdom 7,895 km 118–237 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8,027 km 120–241 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 8,382 km 126–251 ms
Madrid, Spain 8,687 km 130–261 ms
Milan, Italy 8,839 km 133–265 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,539 km 143–286 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 11,078 km 166–332 ms

Distances are from Vancouver. 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 Vancouver

We host servers for companies throughout Vancouver, WA 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.

Seattle is our closest location at 220 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 Vancouver — 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. Seattle is 220 km from Vancouver, an estimated 3–7 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 Vancouver?
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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