
$25 x 12 months add's up to a lot over the years. Everything then stays the same but no longer being billed for the copy of windows. Them into the control panel and onto the servers. You can build, deploy, operate, and monitor applications on premises and in the cloud. You’ll achieve value quickly with a wide range of cost-effective, high-performance storage options and simplified delivery of multi-tenant IT services. But my server provide tells me that people buy SPLA keys all the time and inputs With Windows Server 2012 R2 you can scale to run your most important workloads with robust recovery options. 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. No the $25 a month is just for the Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 64-bit OS.
