Can't say I agree with that. The OS is only restricted in what Microsoft products you run on it. Game servers are considered 3rd party applications and cannot fall under MS licensing. We don't personally use it but many providers offer it as their default MS OS knowing full well that the OS's intended usage is not what the client will use it for. MS cannot tell you what you can/cannot put on the hardware. They can only restrict things that fall within their OS. Something like using IIS to provide FTP access to your clients. ;) The default 2-admin licensing with MS OSs does not cover using IIS/FTP to set up users in the OS and then providing them FTP access to their files. THAT falls within MS restrictions. If it's a genuine concern of yours I'd suggest you contact your provider and ask them. If the servers are in colocation then you alone are responsible for insuring that your licensing is covered. Can't think of any game host that ever got audited but there's always a first.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Stegall Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 7:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] Windows Server 2003 web? IANAL, but the license of Win2k3 Server Web Edition actually is VERY prohibitive of anything like running a game server off it. If it's not web related, it's basically prohibited. For instance, you cannot run MySQL/MSSQL/Oracle off the same box. So, I wouldn't recommend going around talking about using that on your website for anyone actually running a game hosting service. (Now run SBS 2k3 all you want) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Tuft Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] Windows Server 2003 web? The web server edition is geared for maxized IIS and SQL services (pending the product version), The attemps I tried with W3K Web edition ended with serval services (including my srcds server) suffering from a lack of CPU cycles even when I attempted to shut down the IIS and the IIS Admin services. I was never able to isolate the root, but it seemed the the NT kurnel would simply ingore any service and let it fall a sleep execpt the web related and server management services (Terminal service and what not). Hope that helps. I don't belive there are any rules (license abuse) against DCPROMO'ing a Windows server, any Windows 2000+ server can be part of a DC Tree even a server decated to web services. Dustin Tuft >From: Tyler Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [hlds] Windows Server 2003 web? >Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:07:22 -0500 > >-- >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >Is this version of Windows Server supported? Tried a search, and couldn't >find out for sure - It's causinjg some problems I think. > >Your response is appreciated. >-- > >_______________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >please visit: >http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
