But my server provide tells me that people buy SPLA keys all the time and inputs I know I can buy windows server 2012 R2, pay for a KVM link and wipe the whole server and install that way but i'll lose 3 years of work and have to reconfigure everything.

I use the server to Host about 14 game servers, an 8 person VOIP server, FTP server, and one static website, along with using it as a backup storage for media. What I have done was, Rented the server and then rented the license for the Windows server and installed the OS directly to the system making it the main OS as I didn't need Hyper-V or ESXI, as I just needed a server with the full OS. I rent a full dedicated server and I am not running any VM's on it. Of course, Microsoft would like to steer you towards buying Datacenter, the most expensive version, by making it a little difficult to figure out which features are cut out from the lesser releases.No the $25 a month is just for the Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 64-bit OS. Datacenter is the full-fat, all-options build, and you wouldn’t want to miss out on any features during the course of a trial. You’ll notice that the 180-day trial is of the Datacenter edition, and this is no accident. Yes, it is the same ISO image that you download for Server Standard and Storage Server: only their licence key sets them apart. Incidentally, there’s a lot of confusion over the DVD ISO labels, arising from exactly this same problem. The good vibes broke down only once our discussion arrived at what could be done with the various versions of Server 2012, almost all of which vary only in licence keys rather than in the delivered code. Actually, I was most impressed by the explanation that Redmond’s techies gave me of what their new toy could do.

I don’t mean to get all snooty and writer-ish about this (I’d hate you to think that to Cassidy everything is poorly explained unless illuminated by the blazing light of his own intellect).

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