Overview
What is Microsoft IIS?
Microsoft IIS is an application server and infrastructure.
The only choice to host Microsoft platform web apps
Pretty solid value for the cost
Microsoft IIS is a great web server that allows you to deploy web apps with a few button clicks!!
IIS is an effective and efficient tool that needs modernising
Integral to my organization's infrastructure but lacking compared to Linux counterparts
Microsoft IIS Review
Build for ease.
Microsoft IIS can handle simple to complex hosting requirements
Microsoft IIS: Simple to Install, Simple Use--if you are on Windows Servers
Microsoft IIS
Microsoft IIS Server - Honest review by a FullStack developer
Microsoft IIS, a Solid Web Server
Microsoft IIS for enterprise business
Good web and application server for .NET applications
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- Installation (28)9.090%
- Application server performance (28)8.080%
- Administration and management (28)8.080%
- Security management (28)7.070%
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What is Microsoft IIS?
Microsoft IIS is an application server and infrastructure.
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Application Servers
An Application Server provides services and infrastructure for developing, deploying, and running applications
- 8IDE support(20) Ratings
Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs
- 7Security management(28) Ratings
Integrated security management for applications
- 8Administration and management(28) Ratings
Ease of management via administration console
- 8Application server performance(28) Ratings
Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics
- 9Installation(28) Ratings
Ease of download and installation
- 5Open-source standards compliance(17) Ratings
Support for open-source standards like J2EE
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(1-2 of 2)The only choice to host Microsoft platform web apps
- Easy to setup
- Easy to maintain
- Works well with build/release pipelines in Azure devops
- Angular/node apps don't run on IIS, or at least we never figured out how. Rather we ended up using nginx.
- There are still occasional memory leaks - check your recycle settings!
- If you have very heavy usage for web APIs, IIS requires regular restarts for reasons unknown.
- Integration to Azure devops for CICD
- Reliability
- Performance
- Scalability
- Security management
- 50%5.0
- Administration and management
- 80%8.0
- Application server performance
- 90%9.0
- Installation
- 100%10.0
- Since IIS is relatively easy to setup and maintain it reduces operational costs.
- Security patches come down as part of routine Microsoft updates, so keeping up to date is easy.
- Integration with Azure devops means deploying applications is rolled out via CICD very easy to manage.
- Apache HTTP Server and NGINX
- Setting up applications is straight forward
- deploying from azure devops is very simple
- configuring certificates and security
- doing anything with non-Microsoft stack apps
IIS, a Quick and Impartial Review
- Support of application integration is a strength, many COTS applications are supported by Microsoft IIS.
- Microsoft IIS on the Windows Server 2012 R2 platform is very configurable.
- Easily configured for Active Directory authentication.
- Compared to Apache, Microsoft IIS has a large memory footprint.
- Microsoft regularly changes it's administrative utility, sometimes drastically, which causes a learning curve one version to the next.
- With some applications you need to spend quite some time tuning Microsoft IIS to bring it to an acceptable level of performance.
- IDE support
- 70%7.0
- Security management
- 70%7.0
- Administration and management
- 60%6.0
- Application server performance
- 50%5.0
- Installation
- 90%9.0
- Open-source standards compliance
- 60%6.0
- Microsoft IIS does lend itself to quick application integration as it is simple to install and get running, this leads to quick project turn-around time and often less money spent up-front in deploying new solutions.
- I have found in some cases that the initial speed to delivery is compromised by the need to meticulously tune IIS to achieve the desired performance.
- If you have an enterprise contract, Microsoft customer service for IIS is acceptable.
- Apache
- Underlying platform for web applications
- Dynamic web site support
- Static web site support
- The information security team has several custom web applications that run on top of the IIS platform to assist end-users as well as technical support staff.
- Continued COTS and fully custom web applications support.
- Creating a new website or application is simple as long as you can live with out-of-the-box settings.
- Starting and stopping the IIS service is simple and straight-forward.
- Starting and stopping application pools is simple and straight-forward.
- You have to be careful with inheritance of changes from higher levels in the hierarchy, it is easy to accidentally overwrite settings
- Similar to the previous point, be careful with permissions inheritance for your web folder directory; it is normally easier to manage this via Windows Explorer than the IIS Manager
- Make sure that you are using the correct "View"; if you are trying to see content, be sure you have selected "Content View" and if you're trying to manage settings, use "Features View"; this setting (strangely) isn't found under the "View" menu, the toggle buttons are located below the main window
- It is difficult to find certain settings, for example process model settings for application pools; once you know where things are, it isn't too difficult