.NET and ASP.NET hosting on a Windows VPS in France

No. By-Hoster delivers the bare system: Windows, full administrator access, and nothing else. The Web Server (IIS) role is added from Server Manager through "Add roles and features", or in one line of PowerShell with Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools. That is a deliberate choice: you decide on the modules, the runtime version and the configuration, with no image prepared by us and no panel forcing its own versions on you.

Every version Microsoft ships for Windows. .NET Framework 4.8 for legacy applications, and modern .NET 6, 8 or 9, LTS releases included, for everything else. Both families install side by side on the same machine, and several modern runtimes coexist without conflict: each application targets the version it requires. For a web application, the ASP.NET Core Hosting Bundle adds the IIS module you need. You download all of it from Microsoft, as administrator.

Three classic routes, all open to you because you are administrator. Web Deploy from Visual Studio, with the service installed on the server side. Folder copy: publish locally, move the folder over the RDP session or a network share, recycle the application pool. A PowerShell script to automate exactly the same thing. By-Hoster supplies neither a deployment panel nor a CI/CD: wiring a GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipeline onto your server is your job.

Yes, and the Microsoft licence stays your responsibility: By-Hoster installs the system but neither supplies nor resells a licence, and you must hold a valid one for your use case. Two other points come up often. Windows Server allows 2 concurrent administrative RDP sessions; beyond that, for multi-user application RDP access, Microsoft RDS CALs are required. And SQL Server needs its own licence: Express is free within its limits, Standard and Enterprise are paid.

Our official rule of thumb: 4 GB minimum for light use — RDP and office work, a single user — and 8 GB as soon as you add business software, SQL Server Express or several concurrent users. Every Windows plan already starts at 8 GB, which is enough for IIS with a handful of application pools. Once a SQL Server database runs on the same machine, or several sites work in parallel, Windows - Plus and its 16 GB at €13/month save you from counting memory daily.

Often yes, and we would rather say so. .NET 6, 8 and 9 are cross-platform: an ASP.NET Core application runs perfectly well on Linux behind Nginx, and our Linux KVM VPS start at €4.99/month, with no Microsoft licence to buy. Windows keeps the edge in three cases: a .NET Framework application, which only runs there; a dependency on IIS, COM or a Windows component; and the need to open a graphical session over RDP. Our Windows or Linux guide walks through the trade-off.

Yes, without restriction: full administrator access is included across the range. A .NET worker registers as a Windows service and restarts with the machine; Task Scheduler launches an executable or a PowerShell script at a fixed time, under the account of your choice. That is precisely what shared hosting at €1/month cannot do: there you upload files, here you administer a machine.

Three systems are offered at checkout, at no extra cost: Windows Server 2025 (latest LTSC release, mainstream support until 13 November 2029 and security until 14 November 2034, hotpatching and SMB over QUIC), Windows Server 2022 (mainstream support until 13 October 2026, security until 14 October 2031) and Windows 11, a client system not designed to host a multi-user service. The server runs in our single datacenter DC-FR_NA(01), in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, on KVM under Proxmox, under French jurisdiction with no transfer outside the European Union. No commitment, 48-hour money-back guarantee.