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Best Thin Client Setup

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I'm new here and I'm looking for information for a personal question I have since the beginning of the year.

This year I had my first contact with a workspace that uses thin clients, but it's all in the cloud with no local resources. I was wondering if at some point they were without internet what would they do? Since then I have been imagining and I did some research that were not very well answered regarding a possible setup where they would have a local server as a redundancy backup when there is a lack of internet.

Would you like to discuss with more experienced people here what would be the best option for this setup?

Which of these ideas I formed would have the most advantage? (performance, cost, configuration, maintenance)

Idea 1: Local server with all users (let's assume 10 max) connecting simultaneously on the same OS.

Idea 2: Local server with type 1 hypervisor (esxi, proxmox...) virtualizing an OS for each user.

Idea 3: Local server with type 2 hypervisor (VMware, qemu...) on an OS Host virtualizing an OS for each user.

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Thank you very much in advance!

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I suggest to go for option 4: invest in redundant Internet connection and forget about an idea of deploying on-premises solution in 2021 (unless there is a specific need for one, of course).

To recover from those rare occasions your office looses Internet, it can cost as low as an additional router with a SIM card in it.

The reality nowadays is, a cost to support redundant on-premises solution would be much higher, would actually increase downtime risks and would bring no real business benefit.

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