I am an independent contractor that contracts out to my interns that are spread around the whole country. I am still a small business that would like to make an efficient and affordable setup. So far, I have figured that for $500 a piece, I can buy pretty good refurbished PC from ebay and set up my software on them. What is the best bang for buck remote access I can deploy to have very smooth remote access system going on? I have read that windows RDP is a free option. Is there a exponentially better paid option that won’t break the bank for me? What would you guys recommend?

Another reason I want to do this is that we don’t have to deal with file transfer back and forth. I would like to keep the files in these computers. This bring me to my next question. Is it possible to set up a single drive that contains all the files and no matter whichever computer they have remoted in, they would save the files in one central location?

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      10 months ago

      I was gonna say Windows 365 since they just released GPU enabled SKU’s. The cost per month is probably about the same as one billable hour of the Engineer.

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        10 months ago

        2 option. The pcs with the hardware using rdp and tailscale for remote access.

        A gen9 hp server or the dell equivalents with 1 or 2 nvidia k2 and esxi 6.5 if you want to use it without nvidia licenses.

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      10 months ago

      I was going to say this. This problem has cloud written all over it. Spin up virtual windows boxes as fast as you need and shut them down when not needed. You can share data on cloud storage.