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All of Bytemark's Dedicated Servers or Premium Dedicated Servers can be delivered with Microsoft Windows and SQL Server ready to go. This page should help you pick the right edition of each for your needs, and you can order through our order form.

Windows Web Server is appropriate for running any public-facing web site. You only need Standard Edition if the server's main hosting is not open to the public over the web.
	Windows Web Server 2008 R2	Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition	Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition
Host IIS, ASP.NET for public web sites only
License to run anything, including private "line-of-business" applications
Unlimited virtualization rights - run any number of copies of Windows
	£8 month/server	£15 month/processor	£65 month/processor
	A low-priced Windows for your web sites	The full product for running business services	For consolidating many Windows servers
	Per-processor licensing Windows Web Server 2008 can run only on a single processor - for other editions you must pay double the license fee to run them on servers with two processors.

Did you know you can use Express Edition free of charge, even for hosting a public web site?
	Express	Web	Standard	Enterprise
Max Database Size	4GiB	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
RAM use	1GiB	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
CPUs	1	4	4	Unlimited
"Line-of-business" applications permitted?	No	No	Yes	Yes
	£FREE Find out more >>	£15 per month	£237 per processor per month	£908 per processor per month
	Per-user licensing For "line-of-business" applications, you can occasionally pay less by licensing SQL Server on a per-user basis if your application has less than 25 users. Contact us for details.

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