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Seems like a wrapper for, and should be compared with https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/
Nice interface and very easy to set up, it's great I could get to try it without entering any payment methods. I actually need a Linux machine (for GIS with QGIS), it would be nice to get other OS options aside from Windows. I also wanted to sync my Dropbox folders but stopped short of typing my password in the VM after installing the Dropbox client, as I have no idea what kind of security you are using. Something el…
Thanks for the feedback about fullscreen mode I agree it is annoying. We haven't yet figured out a simple way to communicate that choice but it's absolutely necessary.
Regarding security: This is obviously a question we get a lot. We're providing you with an isolated VM, it's not a shared resource. Only you have access to it. We are basically managing backups for your data as file system volumes. We don't have any further access to it. Dropbox was pre-installed for convenience but I see how that may be suspicious.
Hey HN! vagon is a personal cloud-computer that is built to help creatives with flexible performance. Architects, CAD designers, video editors, animators, researchers - they all need powerful computers to create things and that’s what we are trying to provide. Our goal is to make running graphics software such as Adobe or Autodesk products possible even from a Chromebook or a veteran Macbook Air. After a lot of hard…
There are other services like this, mostly for gamers. Vagon is $1.29/hour, plus $8/month. There's no technical problem doing this, but it's an expensive service to provide. The pricing is usually too high to get a market. NVidia's GEForce Now and Google's Stadia are running at a loss for promotional reasons. The game industry's reaction to Stadia is that almost everybody who considered supporting it expects Google w…
Yes, we built vagon on top of AWS with goal of eventually supporting multiple cloud providers. Our thinking is there's already a reliable, state of the art network of datacenters around the globe for our consumption, it makes sense to use it.