This article describes 3Essentials support position on MS SQL Reporting services and Crystal Reporting services components for it's hosting plans:

• Shared Hosting:
  
  • These services(MSSQL Reporting Services and Crystal Reporting services) are enterprise level services, and as such, beyond the boundaries of low-cost, shared hosting services. If you require these components, our Virtual or Dedicated Server offerings may meet your needs.  Please check the SERVERS link at www.3essentials.com for details on our current Virtual and Dedicated Server plans. unmanaged server.  
• Virtual or Dedicated Server: 
  • The customer is provided RDP access with full admin privileges, and as such, can install any application(s) to meet their needs, which they have properly licensed (i.e., Crystal Reports or MSSQL Reporting Services).  Our Sales team can work with you to provide you discounted licensing on a MSSQL Workgroup, Standard or Enterprise edition installation on your dedicated managed server.
    
• Virtual Managed or Dedicated Managed Server: 
  • Crystal Reports: Crystal Reports for .NET is free and comes with Visual Studio, and is thoroughly integrated with both the Visual Studio .NET IDE and the .NET Framework.  3Essentials Virtual Managed and Dedicated Managed server plans provide ASP.net 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5.  Your Crystal Reports for .Net implementation may require deployment of a Crystal Reports framework redistributable; it will be the customer's requirement to identify this as a requirement, and to provide 3Essentials the correct version of the redistributable for the customer's needs.  Provided the proper redistributable from the customer, 3Essentials will gladly install it on the customers Virtual Managed or Dedicated Managed Server on their behalf to provide the necessary support for Crystal Reports for .Net.
    
    • If you want the additional functionality of centralized report management, scheduled deployments and integrated security found in Crystal Reports Server, 3Essentials does not allow Crystal Reports Server on it's Virtual Managed or Dedicated Managed Server offerings at this time.
      
  • MSSQL 2005 Reporting Services: 3Essentials will include any edition of MSSQL in your managed virtual or managed dedicated server which you wish to license (either yourself or through 3Essentials).  Please check Microsoft's documentation on Reporting Services support within the MSSQL editions to ensure the Reporting Services support you need is included in the edition you include on your virtual managed or dedicated managed server: http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/compare-features.aspx.  Our Sales team can work with you to provide you discounted licensing on a MSSQL Workgroup, Standard or Enterprise edition installation on your dedicated managed server. 
    

And contact our sales team (sales@3essentials.com) with further questions or requests for pricing of Virtual or Dedicated offerings, or MSSQL licensing.