Limestone Offers Gratis Server Licenses

As an option with its S2 and S3 series dedicated servers, dedicated hosting provider Limestone Networks is now offering free Windows Server 2003 standard licenses, it announced on Thursday.

Whereas numerous other companies charge for this operating system, Limestone Networks says it decided to offer the free Windows Server Standard option on its S2 and S3 servers to broaden dedicated server accessibility.

“We believe that a customer’s dedicated server experience should never be impeded by an unfamiliar operating system,” says Gary Kendall, Limestone Network CEO. “We have encouraged our customers who are familiar with Linux to use one of our Linux operating system varieties, but we want customers to have the freedom to add Windows Server 2003 without additional expense on our core S2 and S3 offerings.”

When ordering, customers can request the Windows Server 2003 Standard, and their server will be accessible with the operating system in two to four hours of provisioning time.