Microsoft IIS vs Unicorn: What are the differences?
Developers describe Microsoft IIS as "A web server for Microsoft Windows". 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. On the other hand, Unicorn is detailed as "Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix". Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.
Microsoft IIS and Unicorn belong to "Web Servers" category of the tech stack.
"Great with .net" is the top reason why over 77 developers like Microsoft IIS, while over 80 developers mention "Fast" as the leading cause for choosing Unicorn.
Unicorn is an open source tool with 1.35K GitHub stars and 248 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Unicorn's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Microsoft IIS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1492 company stacks & 302 developers stacks; compared to Unicorn, which is listed in 176 company stacks and 55 developer stacks.