Windows servers

Layerbeat sells English Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025. The Windows licence is included in the plan price.

Choose a Windows plan and imageCopy Anchor Link

Windows runs only on Windows plans, and Windows images only on Windows plans. In the catalog, both have os: windows; Windows plan names use W, for example SG-W225.

curl -sS 'https://layerbeat.com/v1/plans?region=sgp' | jq '.data[] | select(.os=="windows") | {id, name, memory_mb, disk_gb}'
curl -sS 'https://layerbeat.com/v1/images?region=sgp' | jq '.data[] | select(.os=="windows") | {id, name, min_memory_mb, min_disk_gb}'

Windows Server needs at least 2 GB RAM and 50 GB of system disk. Smaller plans are refused.

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Windows servers use password login as Administrator; SSH keys are not accepted. Purchase with "auth": "random_password", or "auth": "custom_password" with your own password (which must not contain Administrator).

{
  "name": "win-1", "region": "sgp", "plan": "bv-sgp-...", "image": "windows-server-2022",
  "term_months": 1, "currency": "USD", "quote_id": "q_...", "auth": "random_password"
}

After the server is running, read a generated password with POST /v1/vms/{id}/password/reveal. It can be retrieved for 24 hours. See SSH keys and passwords.

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Connect with a Remote Desktop client to the server's ipv4 on port 3389, user Administrator. Network Level Authentication is on.

A new Windows server takes a few minutes longer than Linux to become ready: setup configures Remote Desktop and the firewall and restarts the server once.

Firewall and disksCopy Anchor Link

• Remote Desktop (3389) is open by default. Change it with the server's firewall rules.
• Inside Windows, inbound traffic from private network ranges is blocked by a Windows Firewall rule group named "Layerbeat isolation".
• Disks attached to a Windows server are formatted NTFS and mounted as folders at C:\mnt\<name>.