Remote Desktop Hosting - Terminal Server Hosting
What is Terminal Services?
Terminal Services enables multiple users to login to a single server where they can access and run applications and programs.
Terminal Services runs on the Windows Server family of operating system.
Users use remote desktop to access the applications on the server.
An example might be employees of a company logging into a terminal server to access their QuickBooks software.
Or to access their work desktop on the server.
Another example would be logging into the terminal server to run a custom application written in Microsoft Access or any number of other applications businesses use.
Common uses include: Hosting desktops, remote users access to corporate
applications, mobile users, custom application hosting, data intensive
applications.
Benefits of Terminal Services - Central Management - Reducing Cost
Having users login into a central server to access programs simplifies many tasks since the applications are only installed once on the server rather than being installed on each user's computer.
This would apply to installing applications, updating applications, backing up
data.
Terminal Services is also great for applications which require a lot of bandwidth
and processing power. Many applications do not perform well when accessed
over the internet but they do with a hosted terminal server because all of the
processing is happening on the server with the user only viewing the screen.
A single user on a 28.8 kb dial up account will have good performance.
This means a dial up user who uses a hosted terminal server can surf the web and
access applications at the speed of the terminal server's high speed internet
connection.
Benefits of hosting your Terminal Server in a datacenter
Datacenters increase reliability and uptime because they have redundancy in:
internet connections, power and ups systems. Each server is leveraging
millions of dollars in infrastructure. Our SLA (Service Level Agreements)
provide 100% uptime guarantees for Power and Network connections. Most
offices have 1 internet connection and datacenters have 4 or 5 connections
blended together to provide 100% connectivity.
Controlled Environment and Security - Datacenters are staffed 24x7 for remote
hands in case any server needs to be touched. There are multiple levels of
security including locked doors, cabinets and video surveillance. The
environment is also controlled to regulate the moisture content of the air.
Pricing for Terminal Server Hosting:
Prices are Server Cost plus $7.75 per user (SAL licensing cost)
Example: $350 for 2xQuad Core Intel® Server plus 30 users @ $7.75 per month for a total of: $582.50
Terminal Server Hosted Solutions: Prices are Server plus $7.75 per user
(SAL licensing cost)
vmware© Virtual Terminal Servers - Pricing based on CPU count, RAM and Drive Space.
- Pricing starts at $175 for a 1 CPU server with 2GB of RAM and 100 GB of SAN hard drive space and Windows® Server 2008 R2.
- Featuring VMWare©
- Redundant Hosts for maximum uptime.
- Redundant network and power for maximum uptime.
- 6Gig per second SAN with 15K SAS drives for speed and performance.
Dedicated Terminal Servers - Up to 60 users per server