windows-vps Most Windows VPS plans ship with Windows Server 2022 or 2025, but a growing number of providers also offer Windows 10 or Windows 11 as the guest operating system. Both boot fine on a VPS, yet they differ sharply in licensing, remote desktop behavior, and the workloads they are allowed to run. If two plans … Read more
SQL Server Express is free and runs on any Windows VPS, which makes it the default choice for small applications — until a database approaches 10 GB and the server starts refusing inserts. Understanding exactly where Express ends and the paid editions begin is the difference between a smooth migration and a weekend emergency. The … Read more
InterServer has sold no-contract hosting since 1999 and entered the Windows VPS market with plans that undercut most rivals on the first invoice: the first month costs one cent with promo code TRYINTERSERVER. This review covers what you actually get after the promo — specs, Windows Server versions, control panel, performance, and support — so … Read more
If your .NET projects still build on a developer’s laptop, you are one hard drive failure away from a stalled release. A Windows VPS running a self-hosted build agent gives your CI/CD pipeline a consistent, always-on environment where MSBuild, NuGet, and the .NET SDK behave exactly as they do on a developer workstation. This guide … Read more
PowerShell Remoting over plain HTTP (port 5985) works, but it is encrypted with Kerberos or NTLM only — and on a workgroup VPS with TrustedHosts in play, authentication can fall back to NTLM, which is weak and easily blocked by security policies. The production answer is WinRM over HTTPS on port 5986 with a certificate … Read more
Data loss on a Windows VPS is rarely caused by hardware failure. In practice it comes from bad updates, accidental deletions, ransomware, and misconfigured scripts — all of which are preventable with a working backup plan. Windows Server already ships the three tools you need: Windows Server Backup for file-level and system-state backups, the Volume … Read more
Internet Information Services (IIS) is still the most direct way to host ASP.NET Core in production on Windows. ASP.NET Core applications run as self-contained Kestrel processes, and IIS acts as a reverse proxy in front of them through the ASP.NET Core Module — it terminates HTTPS, supervises the worker process, and recycles the application pool … Read more
Most Windows VPS providers offer the same CPU and RAM options but split storage into tiers: NVMe, SSD, and occasionally budget HDD. On paper the difference is a few dollars per month; in practice it is the difference between a SQL Server that answers in milliseconds and one that thrashes, or a Windows update that … Read more
An RDP-exposed Windows Server 2022 VPS is one of the most relentlessly attacked services on the internet. Bots scan port 3389 within minutes of a host coming online, and credential-stuffing attempts never stop. This checklist is the hardening pass you should run on every new build — it covers network exposure, authentication, account lockout, certificates … Read more
Server Core installs on Windows Server 2022 and 2025 carry no Explorer shell, no Start menu, and no Server Manager GUI. On a small VPS this is not a hardship — it is a measurable saving of roughly 1–2 GB of RAM, several hundred MB of patch surface, and a meaningfully smaller attack surface. What … Read more