Syracuse web server on Windows

This document describes the minimum configuration requirements when installing the Syracuse web server on a Microsoft Windows server.

Category Configuration requirements
Operating system
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2025
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Note: Since release 2025 R1/V12.0.37, if you are using Windows Server 2012 or 2016, you need to upgrade to Windows Server 2019, 2022, or 2025.
Server
  • Industry-standard server or virtual machine.
  • Processors:
    • Recommended: Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 or later, E7 v3 or later
    • AMD OPTERON™ or EPYC™
    • Avoid low energy processors, best performance with a clock speed above 2.4 GHz
  • At least one dedicated processor.
  • Node.js can be installed with multiple instances (1 processor per instance in this case).
RAM
  • 1 GB per Syracuse node.js process (1 Syracuse node.js process for 30 users for most cases).
  • Specific use cases might require more memory. For further information, consult the Node.js sizing recommendations.
Disk space
  • 1 GB
Others
  • A JDK or a Java Runtime Environment version 11 must be installed.