As a host, it's often difficult to recoup the costs on tools like this since they're typically "value added" as part of the hosts offerings. Well, consider that opening up your firewall ports would make the server more vulnerable to DDoS , script kiddies, and viruses. Second, many hosted users have no experience with MS SQL, much less the management tools and how to find and install them. Third, external access to a SQL Server costs money in terms of bandwidth. A web-based tool like myLittleAdmin takes all of this out of the equation.