[Solved] SQL Server - Supported with HelioHost?

[Guest snowm]

Hello,

I have a server, chazlecorp.ml, that has ASP.NET installed. I am wondering, does Heliohost support SQL Server?

This is the Microsoft SQL Server, not MySQL.

 

Thanks

snowm

[wolstech]

cPanel servers cannot support SQL Server because they run Linux. The ASP.NET support offered on Tommy is provided by Mono (an open-source clone of .NET).

[Krydos]

Techincally Microsoft SQL Server 2017 does run on Linux. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2017-linux The real problem is a standard license is $931. Although, while looking up the price of the license I noticed they have a new level called express that supports up to 10 GB of databases for free. That might be worth looking into. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2017-pricing I moved this topic to escalated to remind me to look into it further.

[wolstech]

The free Express edition has been around for 18 years actually (used to be known as MSDE 2000, and became Express starting with SQL Server 2005). Older versions were crippled in many other ways beyond max space (limited connections, max memory usage, and IIRC a max on database quantity, not just size), not sure on 2017.

 

Linux version looks new.

[Krydos]

Here's the limitations of SQL Server Express 2017 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/editions-and-components-of-sql-server-2017?view=sql-server-2017