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Nested virtualization is the requirement that stops most Hyper-V lab plans on a VPS: the guest Windows Server sees a CPU without the VMX or SVM flag, and Install-WindowsFeature Hyper-V reports that virtualization support is not present. Whether it works depends entirely on the host exposing the flag to your VM, which is a provider-side … Read more
Opening TCP 135 on a Windows Server firewall does not enable RPC. Port 135 is only the endpoint mapper: the client asks it which port a given interface is listening on, and the answer is a dynamically allocated port somewhere in the 49152–65535 range. Block that range and every RPC call fails with a timeout … Read more
IPsec domain isolation means the host accepts inbound traffic only from peers that have authenticated, and drops everything else before any service sees it. It works, and it is the most reliable way to lock down RPC, SMB and WMI on a Windows network without port-level guesswork. It is also the fastest way to make … Read more
SMB signing and SMB encryption are the two controls that determine whether your file traffic on a Windows Server can be tampered with or read in transit — and both cost measurable throughput. The engineering question is not “enable them” but “which one, at what settings, and what does the CPU chart look like afterwards.” … Read more
On a Remote Desktop Session Host, roaming profiles and folder redirection were the traditional answer to “users must see the same desktop on every host.” Both are slow, both corrupt state on logoff, and both struggle with applications that write to AppData. FSLogix replaces them with a container approach: each user’s entire profile lives in … Read more
Storage Spaces is Microsoft’s software-defined storage layer, built into Windows Server, and it is the first thing many administrators reach for when a VPS needs a redundant disk pool. The obvious question — how does it compare to hardware or firmware RAID — has a genuinely practical answer on a virtual machine, and it is … Read more
Windows Server licensing on a VPS confuses administrators because two different models collide. Retail and volume licensing prices Windows Server by the physical core, and that is the model most guides describe. SPLA — the Services Provider License Agreement — is the model hosting providers actually use, and it prices by the month, per user … Read more
Choosing the install option for Windows Server is one of the few decisions on a VPS that is expensive to reverse. The two options ship the same kernel, the same drivers, and the same servicing stack, but they present a very different footprint to the network and to whoever administers them. The trade-off is not … Read more
Measured throughput, startup, and memory numbers for .NET 10, .NET 8, and .NET Framework 4.8.1 on IIS 10 under Windows Server 2025, with sizing guidance for hosted Windows instances.
Most licensing guidance for Windows Server explains cores and CALs in the abstract and then stops right before the question you actually have: what does this cost me when Windows Server runs on a VPS instead of on a physical box in my office? The answers differ in three concrete ways — who holds the … Read more