Microsoft IIS

Microsoft IIS

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft IIS	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft IIS is an application server and infrastructure.	N/A

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	Microsoft IIS
Considered Both Products	Microsoft IIS SS Sandro Silva IT Consultant Chose Microsoft IIS On Windows, Microsoft IIS is easier to implement and maintain than Apache web service. Normally if you need to host PHP or other apache native content on a Windows server, it's recommended to use WAMP or equivalent software to simplify the installation, administration, and … Incentivized Helpful? Gordon Lo Digital Solutions Architect Chose Microsoft IIS It's difficult to compare Apache HTTP Server, nginx, and IIS - they really serve a similar purpose on a different stack. IIS is well suited to the Microsoft stack. Apache HTTP Server works well for Java web applications. nginx is a multipurpose tool that we sometimes deploy … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing Chose Microsoft IIS In terms of the configuration on a shared volume perspective, I think the Apache HTTP Server does a better job here. The Apache angle on this problem is more efficient from a man power perspective and ends up costing a little less in the long run over time. IIS tends to scale … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Microsoft IIS Microsoft IIS is a lot more easier for Microsoft .NET developers to integrate and configure. It is MUCH more easier to install and therefore less time consuming to deliver applications to end users. IIS can be installed with a few clicks of a button by anyone with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft IIS After using both Microsoft IIS and free Linux alternatives, like NGINX and Apache, I have to say I much prefer the Linux products in every way. Configuration is clearer (you have to edit config files deep in Linux somewhere, but once you've done it once, it's easy). Logging is … Incentivized Helpful? Paolo Carzaniga Senior Application Engineer Chose Microsoft IIS Microsoft IIS is more simple to configure and also to maintain against other solutions. Often IIS help me to troubleshoot with its administartive tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Microsoft IIS Apache is java. Java is unnecessary complex. No developer wants to invest in learning all the hundreds of text based configuration files to get something done. Also, apache gives you the most evil and un-usable user interface possible. [Microsoft] IIS makes [life] after … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft IIS We have always been a IIS company so we haven't used any other products like it. Incentivized Helpful? Karl Brown Owner/Technical Architect Chose Microsoft IIS Positive: Better integration with Active Directory Negative: Appache Tomcat is open source and can be deployed on all operating systems including Linux, which allows for easier cross-platform deployments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft IIS I have had a couple of tries at using Apache and Linux as a whole but I guess I am not of the right mindset to get over the learning barrier to make this work. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist Chose Microsoft IIS Nginx is hard to support for smaller multiple projects, which is one reason we use the Microsoft IIS server, which is best fit for a set-up once and forget scenario. The Apache server is more recommended for smaller sized projects due to its cost factor, as the Microsoft IIS … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft IIS Microsoft IIS stacked up well with Apache, but since we are a Microsoft shop primarily, we had more resources that were familiar with managing the operating system and the server itself. While there are some benefits to Apache, you can find most of them in Microsoft IIS if you … Helpful? Kyle Kochtan Technical Lead Chose Microsoft IIS Microsoft IIS was selected long ago as it was included with the Windows licensing. As such no new servers or costs were needed to host a site. We now host nearly 4,000 sites on Microsoft IIS. We do still use other platforms as needed but we always start with Microsoft IIS … Helpful? Valery Mezentsau IT Department Manager Chose Microsoft IIS IIS is easier to configure and manage. Doesn't require deep knowledge of the product to manage it. Doesn't require for IT team to learn Linux/Unix OS for basic web hosting. However, for advanced IT specialists, all three solutions could be useful and can work together. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft IIS Apache and Nginx are both lower overhead solutions compared to IIS, but require extensive configuration through files or command lines. For someone creating a website for the first time, these solutions are difficult to understand and implement. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft IIS Two factors drove our implementation of IIS. 1) Staff familiarity. IIS' ubiquity in the marketplace and its' already-familiar developer tools made IIS implementation straightforward. 2) Vendor support. Most of our external software publishers use IIS for their applications. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Supervisor Chose Microsoft IIS IIS much easier to install, configure and maintain in a Windows environment. Tomcat is more appropriate when it comes bundled with third party applications. Incentivized Helpful? John Glenn Network Operations Manager Chose Microsoft IIS Apache and Nginx are what we use for our large websites and public data. When dealing with the type of traffic we see on our sites IIS just doesn't scale out well. For our staff levels, Apache and Nginx are very hard to support for all of our projects so we can't always use … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft IIS We actually use both platforms in conjunction with each other. Incentivized Helpful? Leo Brewer Information Security Architect Chose Microsoft IIS Many support teams are not comfortable supporting Linux platforms which is where Apache can really shine; also, application vendors often do not support Apache on Linux whereas they do support their products on Microsoft servers running IIS. In our case, the applications that I … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP Senior Security Engineer Chose Microsoft IIS I feel each has their own strengths, when it came to developing the in house applications ASP gave us more features so we went with IIS to support those features. Incentivized Helpful? Peter Quale Vice President, Digital Strategy Chose Microsoft IIS IIS is a different animal than most webservers. I don't know that I'd compare IIS to other products. The differences and reasons to use each are so diverse. Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Hartzler Systems Engineer Chose Microsoft IIS In my experience, Microsoft IIS was definitely easier to wrap my head around and also to troubleshoot. The GUI was a great visual way to see what "sites" and "app pools" you have, what is running, what is currently up. Microsoft IIS also offers the flexibility to have multiple … Incentivized Helpful? payton climer IT Specialist IV Chose Microsoft IIS Microsoft IIS is the only official way to run ASP.NET framework sites and for Microsoft System management tools (SCCM and WSUS). While open source options like Apache and NGINX are more commonly used in our department, to maintain the best compatibility we use IIS in certain … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft IIS Again Microsoft IIS is perfect for us due to the ease of use by our support team. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Active directory Pro Easy to setup Pro Easy to deploy
Top Cons	Minus Error messages Minus Open source Minus Web servers

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Microsoft IIS

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft IIS 7.5 28 Ratings 6% below category average
IDE support	8.020 Ratings
Security management	7.028 Ratings
Administration and management	8.028 Ratings
Application server performance	8.028 Ratings
Installation	9.028 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	5.017 Ratings

Best Alternatives
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User Ratings
	Microsoft IIS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (9 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.8 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (6 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.2 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft IIS
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Publishing applications or websites is easy with Microsoft IIS. You don't need external software or complicated tutorials involving command lines and editing configuration files. On other hand, sometimes the troubleshooter needs a high knowledge of Windows Server, Registry, and tools to debug the application. If you need to host non-Microsoft technology as PHP pages or have a low budget, I recommend IIS equivalent software as Apache. Incentivized SS Sandro Silva IT Consultant Read full review
Pros	Microsoft A big advantage that we use all the time is reviewing the logs that automatically get generated in IIS. It has helped us troubleshoot various problems in our applications over the years. IIS integrates really well with Visual Studio and TFS. We are able to quickly deploy new applications and changes to applications when requested by the business. IIS has proven that it is easy to configure and maintain with minimal effort. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft 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. Incentivized Gordon Lo Digital Solutions Architect Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft We have no intention to replace all applications running on top of the IIS platform. Not all applications support other platforms and not all support staff are skilled in Linux/Apache platform support. Whereas IIS may not be the best performing or most secure web platform available, for the aforementioned reasons, it is impossible not to continue use of this product. Incentivized Leo Brewer Information Security Architect Read full review
Usability	Microsoft As I've mentioned earlier, Microsoft IIS is very simple and easy to use. The user interface is a little bit overloaded with a huge number of different options, but once you have a little clue of what you are doing and what you need - no issues at all. Incentivized Valeryi Mezentsev IT Department Manager Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Microsoft ARR (application request routing) in Microsoft IIS Server enables the web-admins to increase the web app reliability and availability through the rule based routing and load balancing of HTTP requests which in turn provides highly available server. IIS 7.0 Manager also provides kernel as well as user mode caching for faster performance and in case if the server fails, the IIS server has good amount of details logged in its log files which help understand and debug the cause quickly. Load balancing facilitates IIS server to fight against availability issues. Incentivized Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist Read full review
Performance	Microsoft In my experience, I have never had significant issues with IIS performance. Sometimes I've experienced issues with loading time, but it is mostly related to the web site code. However Amazon, Microsoft and Google providing free cloud services with very limited resources, and in that scenario, "heavy" websites on IIS could be the issue. In other situations - performance is good. Incentivized Valeryi Mezentsev IT Department Manager Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft As mentioned earlier there is so much documentation or guides or stack overflow questions out there that someone will have faced the same or very similar scenario to what you are going through that you will almost certainly find a solution to what you are after. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Apache is java. Java is unnecessary complex. No developer wants to invest in learning all the hundreds of text based configuration files to get something done. Also, apache gives you the most evil and un-usable user interface possible. [Microsoft] IIS makes [life] after development easy, which is already complex enough to be bothered by something as mundane as exposing your work over the internet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Microsoft Microsoft IIS Server is scalable if the underlying server configuration is done correctly. Use x64 edition v/s 32bit and using 32bit mode application pools are some of the tweaks to be done to make the IIS server scalable. There are too many small configurations need to be carried out in order to make a highly scalable IIS server hence not giving full score in this area. Incentivized Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Allowing us to internally host our monitoring websites allows quick access to data that can be quite hidden, saving developer time. It was inexpensive compared to more bulky solutions saving upfront cost. It’s easy to install and enable allowing more developer savings. Incentivized Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Read full review
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