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We do not sell a Windows VPS.

Every image in our catalogue is Linux and we do not sell Windows Server licensing on the dedicated machines either. You are on this page because you searched for something, so the least we can do is answer it in the first sentence rather than the fourteenth.

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The state of it

No Windows images, no Windows licensing, no roadmap promise.

Three separate statements, all of which are true today, and none of which we would like you to discover after paying.

On the virtual platform

The deploy flow offers 6 images. All 6 are Linux: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 12, AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9, Ubuntu 24.04 + Docker.

On dedicated servers

We sell the hardware, not a Windows licence. The machines are yours to do as you like with, but nothing in the price covers Windows Server, and our support does not cover administering it.

On the future

We are not going to tell you it is coming. If that changes it will appear in the catalogue with a price on it, which is the only form of announcement worth planning around.

What we do offer

A self-managed Linux server, and root on it.

From $7.90 a month: your own kernel on KVM, local NVMe, one IPv4 and a /64 of IPv6, snapshots, a browser console and a rebuild in about a minute. Plenty of workloads that people search for on a Windows page run perfectly well on it.

Web applications and APIs
PHP, Node, Python, Go, Ruby, Java and modern .NET all run natively on the images we ship. For most web workloads the operating system is an implementation detail of the deployment, not a constraint on the application.
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis and SQL Server for Linux all have first-class Linux builds. Local NVMe attached to the host, with no storage network in between, is the part that usually matters more than the operating system.
Containers
One of our images is Ubuntu 24.04 with Docker already installed. If your plan was to containerise anyway, the Windows question often disappears on the way.
Game and voice servers
Many popular server binaries ship for Linux, and the Dedicated CPU line exists precisely for workloads that run flat out. The ones that are Windows-only genuinely are Windows-only, and you should host those elsewhere.

And if none of that fits. If your application needs the Windows-only stack — classic ASP.NET Framework, COM, IIS configuration, Windows services, Active Directory — then buy from a provider that sells Windows properly. We would rather lose the order than take it and be unable to help you at the point where it matters.

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Questions

Everything else people ask on this page.

Short answers, because the long ones would all be variations of no.

Do you sell a Windows VPS at all?
No. Every image in our catalogue is Linux, and we do not sell Windows Server licensing with the dedicated machines either. There is no hidden Windows plan, no “on request” option and nothing in progress that we would be willing to have you plan around.
Could I install Windows on one of your servers myself?
The deploy flow offers the images we ship, all of which are Linux, and we do not publish a custom-image or ISO-upload feature. So the honest answer is: not through anything we document or support. If you are considering it anyway, ask support first rather than buying a server and finding out — we will tell you plainly whether it is possible.
Why not just add Windows?
Because doing it properly means selling and administering per-machine licensing, and supporting an operating system our engineers do not run day to day. Adding it badly would be worse for you than not adding it: a Windows instance nobody here can help you with is not a product, it is a liability with a price tag.
My application is .NET. Is that a dead end?
Usually not. Modern .NET is cross-platform and a great deal of ASP.NET Core runs on Linux without changes; Microsoft also ships SQL Server for Linux. What does not travel is anything tied to the Windows-only stack — classic ASP.NET Framework, COM components, IIS-specific configuration, Windows services and Active Directory integration. Check which of those you actually depend on before assuming either way.
What if I need a Windows desktop over RDP?
Then we are not the right supplier, and we would rather say that than sell you a Linux box and hope. Buy it from a provider that offers Windows images with the licensing included. If part of your estate can live on Linux, we are happy to host that part — plenty of customers run their Linux workloads here and their Windows workloads elsewhere.

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