Best Windows VPS Hosting for 2017

It’s a sad fact that you cannot always trust details from someone’s marketing claim. We were not content with merely selecting marketing claims from a provider’s website, instead, we developed a more time consuming, but vastly more accurate and useful to you, method for our analysis.

We decided that the best way to analyze a claim and accurately evaluate it is best to conscientiously test it as rigorously as time and resources permit. Thus, we obtained a standardized Windows VPS offer from every provider: provisioned with 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU (Virtual CPU), and approximately 30-40GB of data storage. We subjected each VPS to a battery of rigorous tests, as detailed and expounded upon in the following list:

Stress testing: In the real world, you may have hundreds of users demanding speedy access to your server. It is of utmost critical importance to know that your VPS will not collapse under the weight of customer data requests, particularly if you expect growth, or even if you have a sudden influx of users. Here, we tested each Windows VPS by hosting a singular domain and bombarding it with 500 simultaneous visitors. We neatly collated our data into a pretty graphical format alongside a research report providing an analysis of the results.

Support evaluation: Things go wrong. It’s a fact of life. You may not have the time nor expertise to fix every issue that rears its ugly head, and thus you will inevitably have to call on the provider’s technical support. Not all technical support is created equal, however, so we didn’t just send simple requests for help. Instead, we measured their efficacy when it came to the problems that truly matter: we purposefully generated deviously complex errors, and reported them to the hosting provider. Did they succeed? We meticulously measured and recorded their technical skills along two primary axes: their technical proficiency evidenced in their responses, and the sum of time ultimately consumed to fully resolve the problem.

Uptime analysis: It’s the 21 st century, and customers expect and need exceptional uptimes. It’s no use having an incredible product or website if your prospective clients cannot even access it due to a vexing problem with the VPS host. To test this indispensable quality, we hosted a domain on a given provider’s windows VPS, and carefully tracked and analyzed both response times and uptime over a period of over two weeks (15 days).

Backup validation: Backups are the cornerstone of any web host. They are fundamental to both the security and peace of mind you should demand from a provider. If backups fail, you may be on the hook for thousands of dollars in recovery. To subject this dimension of host effectiveness to testing, we performed a rigorous analysis of their backup services, noting how backups were performed, what kind of data was backed up and in which format, and finally requested that the VPS provider restore our data from a previously made backup.

Knowledge appraisal: Exemplary documentation is of tremendous value. It can mean the difference between several minutes or several hours of research. A well-structured, information dense Knowledge Base (KB) is a hallmark in finding a polished VPS provider, that recognizes your time and patience is limited. For this test, the richness, congruity and breadth of KB articles, as well as the technical support team’s responses, were gauged. Areas, if any, that required enhancement or were meagre in specified areas were noted for our reports.
Our comprehensive research reports are constructed from the 5 dimensions of testing and analysis itemized above. They form a critical component in aiding you to quickly and accurately evaluate the competence and suitability of a Windows VPS provider for your distinct needs and level of personal VPS knowledge.