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One platform,
two ways to use it.
Whether you're a single individual/student hosting a VM or a lecturer running labs for a whole cohort, Testbed gives you the same fast, browser-based access — just at a different scale, starting from AUD $4/week for individuals.
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Bring any VM, access it from anywhere.
Testbed lets you host a virtual machine of your choice and reach it entirely through your browser — no installs, no VPN clients, no juggling VirtualBox or VMware on your own laptop.
Host any OS you need
Linux distributions, and other supported images, spun up on demand and ready in your browser within moments.
Bring your own VM
Upload a VM you already have (say, one your institute gave you for a subject, or one you built yourself) and run it on Testbed instead of your own hardware.
Access it from anywhere, on anything
Full keyboard, mouse, and clipboard support through the browser, with the same performance whether you're on an Intel laptop, Apple Silicon MacBook, or a Snapdragon-powered device, because the VM runs in our cloud, not on your machine.
Securely reach VMs hosted elsewhere
Already running a VM at home, on a NAS, or on another cloud provider? Testbed can act as your secure browser-based gateway to it too, so you're not limited to only what's hosted on our infrastructure.
Save your progress
Snapshot support means you can pick up exactly where you left off, or roll back cleanly if something breaks.
Fixed, predictable pricing
Starting from AUD $4/week, increasing based on the size of VM you choose. No usage meters, no forgetting to switch a VM off, no surprise bill at the end of the month.
Who this is for
- ■Individuals/students who've been handed a course VM and don't want to run it on their own laptop
- ■Developers who want a consistent, always-on environment they can reach from any device
- ■Anyone experimenting with a new OS or tool without wanting to dedicate local hardware to it
- ■People who already run VMs elsewhere (home lab, another cloud provider) and want one clean, secure browser-based way to reach all of them
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Run every individual's/student's lab environment from one place — without becoming their IT department.
If you're a lecturer, tutor, or course coordinator, Testbed lets you build a lab once and give your entire class working access to it — no lab bookings, no “it works on my machine,” no start-of-semester scramble to get 200 individuals'/students' laptops configured the same way.
Everything in individuals, plus:
One VM, your whole class
Host a VM on Testbed and every enrolled individual/student gets their own isolated instance, launched straight from their browser.
We convert your existing VM images
Already have labs built for your course? Send us the VM as-is and we'll handle converting it to run on Testbed. No need to rebuild anything from scratch.
Advanced networking for multi-VM labs
Configure setups where each individual/student gets more than one VM — for example, an attacker box and a target box, a client and a server, or a small simulated network — with the networking between them handled for you.
Group-based, deny-by-default permissions
Control exactly which individuals/students can access which labs, down to the individual template. Nothing is open unless you explicitly assign it.
Staff access for marking
Grant teaching staff the ability to access an individual's/student's VM directly when needed, such as marking a practical assessment — fully permission-controlled, not automatic.
Snapshot-based checkpoints
Let individuals/students save progress mid-lab, or reset an individual's/student's environment back to a clean state in a click if they get stuck or break something.
Per-individual/student, per-semester billing
Simple, predictable costing that scales with your enrolments rather than requiring a custom contract renegotiation every term.
custom lab design
We build the labs for you
Not every lecturer has the time to build practical labs from scratch alongside everything else a course requires. Testbed's in-house team of academics can design practical labs that map directly to the theory covered in your course — so you get hands-on exercises for your individuals/students without having to build them yourself.
- ■You focus on the theory, we build the practical — describe what your course covers, and our academic team designs labs that reinforce it.
- ■We can host the labs too — once designed, your labs can be hosted directly on Testbed and rolled out to your class the same way as any other lab template.
Currently offered in these domains:
This is a separate service from self-service lab hosting — if you'd rather build and upload your own labs (or send us existing ones to convert), that's covered under the standard institutional offering above. Custom lab design is for when you'd rather hand that work to us entirely.
Who this is for
- ■Lecturers and tutors running practical components of a subject
- ■Course coordinators standardising lab environments across multiple tutorial groups
- ■Faculties looking to eliminate the IT overhead of managing physical lab machines or individual/student-owned hardware compatibility issues
Ready to get started?
Individual plans start from AUD $4/week. Institutions are billed per individual/student, per semester — see full pricing for details.