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Microsoft IIS
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Microsoft IIS

#7in Platform as a Service
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What is Microsoft IIS?

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

Microsoft IIS is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Microsoft IIS Pros & Cons

Pros of Microsoft IIS

  • ✓Great with .net
  • ✓I'm forced to use iis
  • ✓Use nginx
  • ✓Azure integration
  • ✓Best for ms technologyes ms bullshit
  • ✓Fast
  • ✓Performance
  • ✓Reliable
  • ✓Powerful
  • ✓Simple to configure

Cons of Microsoft IIS

  • ✗Hard to set up

Microsoft IIS Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Microsoft IIS?

NGINX

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

OpenResty

OpenResty

OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies.

LiteSpeed

LiteSpeed

It is a drop-in Apache replacement and the leading high-performance, high-scalability server. You can replace your existing Apache server with it without changing your configuration or operating system details. As a drop-in replacement, it allows you to quickly eliminate Apache bottlenecks in 15 minutes with zero downtime.

Passenger

Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex.

Microsoft IIS Integrations

ASP.NET Core, Kallithea, Lucee, Simplify.Web, Server Density and 4 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Microsoft IIS. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Microsoft IIS.

ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core
Kallithea
Kallithea
Lucee
Lucee
Simplify.Web
Simplify.Web
Server Density
Server Density
Datadog
Datadog
Logit.io
Logit.io
observIQ
observIQ
SnappyFlow
SnappyFlow

Microsoft IIS Discussions

Discover why developers choose Microsoft IIS. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 1 of 5 discussions.

feiock
feiock

Nov 7, 2014

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Web server for our 9 web applications and associated web services and external integrations Microsoft IIS

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