Month: October 2026

Windows Server Failover Clustering on Two VPS Nodes: Quorum and Storage Options

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A two-node Windows Server Failover Cluster is achievable on VPS infrastructure, but the constraints are different from a datacenter build. Shared storage usually does not exist, quorum is a design decision rather than an afterthought, and network latency between nodes sets the practical ceiling for what can fail over cleanly. This is the design reference … Read more

A Field Guide to netsh, Get-NetTCPConnection, and Test-NetConnection for VPS Network Troubleshooting

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Network faults on a Windows VPS usually show up as a single symptom — “the app can’t connect” — while the cause sits somewhere between DNS, the firewall, the listener, and the provider’s edge. Three tools cover most of that ground: Test-NetConnection for end-to-end reachability, Get-NetTCPConnection for local listener state, and netsh for the lower-level … Read more