Digital Ocean – Remote Desktop – What $5 a month buys you.

Go sign up at Digital Ocean and create a 512MB RAM, 1 CPU droplet in your region using the Ubuntu image.
Wait a whole dammed minute for your 20 GB SSD based VM to be provisioned and go get your root credentials from the welcome email.
If you manage your own DNS, which you must or we can’t hangout, go add an A record for the VM IP like with coolname.yourdomain.huh.
SSH into the box and change your password and maybe apt-get update, apt-get -y upgrade, reboot. No sudo required. Whoami, I am root beaches, this is free balling.
Then apt-get install -y lxde xrdp midori. Remote in with mstsc or rdesktop to your hearts content and use it like a shoe, like for if your work blocks eBay and that is basically your second income.
Add swap as needed, you will need it.
I only do all this so I can run byobu, mwahahahaha.