I can't speak to the hosting side, but why not just get a windows license
to feed the beast?

I presume this is a windows server, if the hosting is cheap enough, might
be worth just getting the license vs moving, but someone has to pay
microsoft, and it's always going to be you one way or another.  The site I
usually recommend gkeys24 has win server licenses too, so long as you're
using something new enough they have, it was cheap enough at like $30 for a
server 2022 license at least.

Even at full cost, if that much of a dependency and pita to move, it might
be worth the cost to toss it a license and be done.

-mb


On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 3:47 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Ok, I know this is going to make y’all cringe, but ... I need to find a
> reliable, ethical, and inexpensive hosting VPS for a Windows back-end
> service app I’m working on.
>
> I’ve been hosting at a place called VirMach that has both Win and Linux,
> and it turns out they’ve been laoding up TRIAL licenses on their Windows
> VPS machines. Mine is now shutting down every day since the trial period
> expired, and they say it’s on me to fix it.
>
> Right now I don’t need a lot of resources. I have a web service that I’m
> working on that still needs some work completed, but I’m getting close to
> hitting my first major milestone.
>
> Anyway, I’m just wondering if anybody can recommend where to go for a
> light-duty Win VPS host. If it can scale-up later, that would be great.
>
> I need 4GB of RAM because I’ve found anything less that that runs horribly
> slow. The bandwidth isn’t that much, and the disk space isn’t either. It’s
> more of a traffic cop: I’ve got a bunch of files cached on a Linux host
> elsewhere, and this thing just runs a bunch of logic, talks to 3rd-party
> services, and supports a simple database to say where to find other
> resources.
>
> Thanks
>
> -David Schwartz
>
>
>
>
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