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Shared Hosting SQL Server Price Changes - March 2026

26 November 2025

We offer Microsoft SQL Server through the Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA). This licensing model is required by Microsoft for service providers that host software for external customers. SPLA operates on a monthly subscription model and charges based on the processor core count for SQL Server.

Microsoft has announced that SQL Server Web Edition will be retired under SPLA for all future versions of SQL Server. All workloads must now migrate to SQL Server Standard Edition, which has a significantly higher per-core cost.

Impact on Pricing for Shared Web Hosting

  • The license fee for the Standard Edition is 17 times more expensive than that of the Web Edition. 

  • Through optimisation — merging low‑populated database servers and removing unnecessary cores from servers — we anticipate reducing the licensing cost to approximately £0.80 per database each month.

  • The resulting overall cost will be £1.75 per database each month, made up of £0.95 for the database and £0.80 in Microsoft licensing fees.

  • This represents an increase of just £0.65 for each database compared to current pricing.

  • Taking these changes into account, the new pricing of £1.75 per month per SQL Server database will take effect on the 1st of March 2026.

In the coming months, we will conduct maintenance on SQL Server databases to accommodate these changes and will notify customers of when this maintenance will take place. Hostnames and logins will be retained to prevent customers from needing to make adjustments to the database connection strings within their websites.

If you’d like to discuss how this affects your shared web hosting plan, please contact support at; www.webwiz.net/support

Thank you for your continued partnership.




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