The remote access infrastructure landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Between RDS environments, VDI platforms, ever-stricter security requirements, and the growing complexity of multi-site deployments, designing and operating these architectures has become a serious technical challenge.
That’s why RAS Insider exists.
The goal of this site is straightforward: sharing real-world experience around remote access technologies, with a focus on Parallels RAS, Microsoft RDS, and VDI environments.
Why this site?
After working on numerous infrastructure projects, one observation kept coming up: there is surprisingly little in-depth technical content available on these topics — even in English.
Most available resources are:
- heavily marketing-driven
- too generic
- or purely theoretical
Yet in real-world projects, the challenges are very concrete:
- How do you properly size an RDS farm?
- How do you design a scalable RAS architecture?
- How do you manage thousands of users across multiple sites?
- How do you effectively monitor sessions?
- How do you automate day-to-day operations?
These are exactly the questions RAS Insider aims to answer.
What you’ll find on RAS Insider
This site is built for infrastructure professionals:
- RDS and Parallels RAS architectures
- Deployment guides
- Real-world project feedback
- PowerShell scripts for operations
- Tuning and optimization tips
- Security best practices
- Troubleshooting methods
The goal is to publish content that sysadmins and infrastructure engineers can actually use.
A field-first approach
RAS Insider is not an IT news site or a marketing blog.
Every article published here is grounded in hands-on experience from real projects — sometimes involving complex environments with several thousand users.
That means you’ll find here:
- real architectures
- real problems encountered in the field
- solutions tested in production
And sometimes… mistakes worth learning from.
What’s coming next
Upcoming articles will cover:
- Designing a high-availability Parallels RAS farm
- RDS vs Parallels RAS — key differences
- Sizing best practices
- Session and application usage monitoring
- Automating common administration tasks
The goal is to progressively build a solid technical knowledge base around RAS.
If you work in remote access infrastructure — whether in operations or architecture — you should find something useful here.
Welcome to RAS Insider.
