{"id":167,"date":"2025-08-25T02:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:39:40","slug":"why-does-my-windows-vps-keep-shutting-off-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/why-does-my-windows-vps-keep-shutting-off-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does my Windows VPS keep shutting off automatically?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ve received many support tickets from users asking why their Windows Server VPS shuts down automatically. There are a couple of possible reasons for this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Resource usage<\/strong> \u2013 If your VPS is using too many resources, especially RAM, Windows may hang or crash, which can result in the server shutting down unexpectedly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trial license limitations<\/strong> \u2013 The most common reason is that the Windows Server installation is running in trial mode. Since purchasing a license for every VPS would be extremely expensive, we provide the servers in trial mode by default.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution is to activate Windows with a valid license to take it out of trial mode. There are plenty of guides and tools available online Google and GitHub are your friend but please don&#8217;t install malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve received many support tickets from users asking why their Windows Server VPS shuts down automatically. There are a couple of possible reasons for this: The solution is to activate Windows with a valid license to take it out of trial mode. There are plenty of guides and tools available online Google and GitHub are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btcvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}