Compare different Windows VPS providers side-by-side based on their plans, pricing, features, and use cases. Through detailed data tables and analysis, help users quickly find the VPS solution that best fits their needs and budget.
Windows Server licensing confuses everyone — and with good reason: it combines per-core pricing, client access licenses (CALs), and edition differences that all interact. This article explains the building blocks in plain language: what you pay for, how it applies to rented servers, and which options exist for development and testing. It is informational guidance, … Read more
Choosing between IIS and Nginx on a Windows VPS is a workload decision, not a loyalty test. IIS is still the only web server that hosts ASP.NET natively and speaks Windows authentication out of the box, while Nginx brings a dramatically smaller memory footprint, mature HTTP/3, and first-class reverse proxying. In 2026 both run cleanly … Read more
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
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
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
Moving files to and from a Windows VPS is a solved problem, yet it is one of the most common support tickets. The confusion is usually terminology: FTP, FTPS, and SFTP are three different things, and Windows Server ships first-class support for all three. This article explains the differences with real port numbers and crypto … Read more
Since .NET Core, the “Windows only” assumption about .NET is dead — ASP.NET Core runs natively on Linux, and .NET 8 and .NET 9 are fully cross-platform. That leaves developers with a real choice: host a .NET application on Windows Server with IIS, or on Linux with Nginx and Kestrel. The decision affects your monthly … Read more
Windows Server 2022 has been the default operating system on Windows VPS plans for years, but 2025 editions are now widely available across hosting providers — and the upgrade decision is not as automatic as Microsoft’s marketing suggests. The two versions differ in security features, RDP behavior, IIS capabilities, and the .NET runtimes they ship … Read more