Just tried the demo on your website and it seems to be quite slow and unresponsive. If this a load issue?
Also it gives me a feeling that I'm not in control of what's happening on the screen. Could you please let me know how is this solution better (or more secure) than using remote desktop with disposable VMs?
I'm sorry about that! That's sounds like a really terrible experience you had trying this out today. It must feel really uncomfortable to not be in control of what's happening on screen.
There's a couple of factors that could be playing into this. Primarily it's likely just the application itself. It is more slow, and less responsive than using a regular browser on your device.
The frame-rate is capped very low, the image quality is lower, and there's more lag to each interaction since it involves (at the very least) a WebSocket round trip and a screenshot.
Secondly, you could be affected by geography, which has a very significant effect. If you are close to the primary server (US East, Virginia) you'll have a faster more responsive experience.
In a few minutes I'll have the HK server (Asia Pacific) back up ( I was just resizing it down, it was seeing significantly less use than the US server), and if you're closer to that you can try there.
Also, the free demo has many caps (so as to control costs). I cap the outgoing bandwidth of each user to a very low 3Mbit/s, and I use multiple ways to cap CPU usage, including (in extreme cases) killing the process. All of this means that if the page you are using wants to eat a lot of CPU (happens sometimes) then the app will slow right down for you (to preserve resources for everyone else on the system).
I can say confidently that it is not about the number of users. We had More 100s at peak before and a single browser still felt snappy. So if you're getting slow down I think it is (to summarise), either:
- You are experiencing the app for the first time, it is different to using a normal browser, interactions are slower and more choppy (but page loads should be as fast or faster).
- The page you are browsing is hitting the resource monitoring and being downregulated.
- You are link-wise far from the server (which is often, but not always, related to geography).
If you're interested to give it another try I'm at another time I'm happy to arrange that. Would you be unwilling to leave your email at this form, and I can let you know a quieter time? Also, if you just email me at cris@dosycorp.com and let me know your approximate location, I can set up a server near you and we can attempt to work out any leg issues still occurring.
Also it gives me a feeling that I'm not in control of what's happening on the screen. Could you please let me know how is this solution better (or more secure) than using remote desktop with disposable VMs?