In order to "afford" MS software you could ensure that your colo provider has SPLA, that way you'll pay monthly for things like MSSQL WG etc.

With regard to redundancy, we provide multi site failover solutions and it normally works like this...

The greater the failover / recovery speed, the higher the cost.

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