I want to set up 5 powerful computers to run Mechanical Engineering software in my home office, and give remote access to my contractors on a daily basis. Which remote access works best for me?
There are two ways to approach this: For $500 a pop you can build a pretty decent desktop with current hardware with warranties for that piece of mind. Or, you can head on to eBay and get something like R730 server for $600-$700 with dual 20 core CPUs and decent amount of RAM. Use Free versions of Citrix Hypervisor or XCP-NG as your OS and deploy as many Windows VMs as you need. Then setup snapshot schedule for each vm for backups, configure RDP, and off you go.
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Looking for a good Rack Mount Router
Cisco rv345. Those are cheap used, and give you a ton of customization options in software, and are rack mountable.
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