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Does DigitalOCean Host Windows Servers?

Posted on November 17, 2015
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Asked by AdventureLights

Hey,

I made this account to ask a question. Not sure if I’m in the right place for what I need or not, but I might be :)

The company I work for has a website run on windows IIS. The website in question is www.adventurelights.com

We are extremely unsatisfied with the service we are getting with our current host provider. They can’t even install a renewed SSL Certificate, which we need to make sales…critical situation.

I am researching new providers we can switch over too. Digital Ocean looks fantastic, but is it what I’m looking for? Maybe you can tell me, haha

Thanks!!

Evan

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alexdo

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• August 15, 2020

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Hi,

Unfortunately at this time we do not have native support for Windows OSs on Droplets. You may be able to achieve this however by creating your own custom Windows ISO image and then using that when creating your Droplet.

Currently, DigitalOcean only allows the deployment of Linux based OS’s.

NOTE: This is not natively supported on the platform (choosing a Windows OS when you deploy your droplet).

We’d recommend that you add your vote to the Windows Server idea on our Product Ideas Board as well as comment your use-case there so that our teams can better understand your needs.

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-2872

Hope that helps!

Regards, Alex

Jonathan Tittle • November 17, 2015

@AdventureLights

Currently, DigitalOcean only allows the deployment of Linux based OS’s. The option to install your own or bring your own OS is currently not possible (though I believe this is something that they are working on).

Tagging @ryanpg so perhaps he can chime in on this one.

alexdo

Site Moderator

• June 30, 2024

A little update in 2024. At the moment Windows is not natively supported on Digital Ocean’s droplets, but you can spin up a Paperspace instance of Windows.

Paperspace is a cloud-based machine learning platform that offers GPU-powered virtual machines and a Kubernetes-based container service.

The Windows 10 licensed edition is the most popular. This template is technically a Server edition of Windows but looks and feels like a regular desktop operating system. Paperspace also offers an unlicensed version of Windows 10 (referred to as BYOL) which requires you bring your own Windows license.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/getting-started/run-windows-app/

Hope that this helps!