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You can read more about SPLA licenses vs Volume licenses here: Advantages to Using Riptide Hosting’s MS SPLA Licensesīe aware that many hosting providers don’t provide or offer Remote Desktop User Licenses which makes it very difficult for their clients to use RDS and stay in compliance with Microsoft licensing terms. These Microsoft licenses are provided on a monthly basis which eliminates the need for clients to pay large upfront fees and allows easy changes to licensing, especially user licenses that can be increased as a client grows. On our Windows VMs, we provide the Microsoft licenses under the Microsoft Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) program which is the only Microsoft licensing program which allows commerical hosting. If a client want to use their own Microsoft licensing, they much purchase our Windows Dedicated Server(s) instead. In fact, our users cannot use their own Microsoft licensing on our Windows VMs. On our Windows VMs, we provide the Microsoft licensing (Windows Server licensing on all, and when needed: MS Office (or a component such as MS Access or MS Excel), Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and SQL Server).