Tutorials/Guides

iisnode is Microsoft’s open-source IIS extension that hosts Node.js applications inside IIS worker processes, giving Node apps the same process management, logging, and uptime behavior as ASP.NET sites. Instead of running node server.js in a terminal that dies when you log out of RDP, IIS starts your app on boot, restarts it when it crashes, … Read more

Remote Desktop is the most bandwidth-hungry part of a Windows VPS setup that most people never tune. The default experience settings assume a fast LAN: full wallpaper, font smoothing, window animations, and 32-bit color streamed continuously. Over hotel Wi-Fi or a link with 80–150 ms latency, that combination turns a responsive server into a slideshow. … Read more

RDP is how you look at a Windows VPS; PowerShell Remoting is how you operate it. WinRM (Windows Remote Management) is built into every modern Windows Server and lets you run commands, scripts, and full interactive sessions over the network without a desktop session — the foundation of real automation. Here is how to enable … Read more

One Windows VPS with a single public IP can host an ASP.NET Core site, a Node.js API, a static site, and a WordPress install at the same time. The glue is IIS with the URL Rewrite module, and when you add Application Request Routing (ARR) it doubles as a reverse proxy that routes traffic to … Read more

TLS version support on Windows is decided at the operating-system level by Schannel, the built-in security provider. IIS, WinRM, RDP’s network layer, and every .NET application on the box inherit the same protocol settings — which is why a single registry change can modernize TLS for the whole VPS at once. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 … Read more

Serve IIS sites over HTTPS with free Let’s Encrypt certificates, redirect HTTP, enable HTTP/2, enforce HSTS, and retire TLS 1.0/1.1.

Logging into a Windows VPS as Administrator for everything is a breach waiting to happen. Create standard users, scope RDP rights, and audit every logon.

Remote Desktop (RDP) is the standard way to manage a Windows VPS: it gives you a full desktop session over the network, so you can use Server Manager, install software, and run IIS Manager as if you were sitting at the console. The setup itself is only a few clicks, but doing it correctly — … Read more

Every Windows VPS that exposes Remote Desktop on the default port 3389 gets hit by brute-force attempts — usually within hours of deployment. The Windows event log on a fresh, unprotected instance routinely shows hundreds of failed logon events per day, most of them from botnets cycling through username/password lists. The good news is that … Read more

Windows Admin Center is a browser-based management tool for Windows servers that replaces the older MMC snap-in console. Instead of RDP’ing into every server individually, you manage all your machines from a single dashboard — monitoring performance, managing services, configuring IIS, and even applying Windows updates — all through a web browser. This guide walks … Read more