DNN Evoq Licensing
Overview
- Production licenses are for live sites.
- Staging licenses are for staging servers.
- Test licenses are for test sites.
- Development licenses are for local use (i.e., localhost).
- Failover licenses are for emergency use only. Example: If you set up a backup data center that you could quickly switch to, in case your main data center goes offline, you need failover licenses for the backup data center.
To be able to get staging, test, development, or failover licenses, you must have at least one paid commercial production license. Members of the DNN Partner Program can get not-for-retail (NFR) licenses without this requirement.
Activation
You must activate a license for each IIS instance. Example: If you host two websites on a server, you need two licenses and you must activate one license in each website.
By default, each production/staging/test/failover license can be activated only once. For extenuating circumstances (e.g., if your server crashes or a database overwrite corrupts your site's license information), contact Customer Support to reactivate your existing license.
In contrast, a development license can be activated as many times as needed. To request additional activations for an existing development license, contact Customer Support.
To activate a license, you need the invoice number(s) sent to you in an email after your purchase and the email address associated with each invoice. Each license will have its own invoice number (e.g., INV00x-1, INV00x-2, INV00x-3).
In most cases, you can activate the license automatically. However, if the server does not have Internet access, you can also do so manually.