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August 02, 2022
For Microsoft environment the best option of WebServices
Hosting websites on-premises or in the cloud, Microsoft IIS is the best choice for deploying websites using Microsoft technology such as ASP.NET pages. In our company, we have developed some systems for our customers, such as access control, timesheet, and hotel checkin/out, among others; the simplicity to automatically create and configure a website is a differential of the solution, because the end user is not always an IT technician with the necessary knowledge to install and configure a web application, that's why the "NNF" configuration (Next-Next- Finish) is a big differentiator. However, Microsoft IIS has great features for advanced users, allowing for example, to host several sites on the same server and segregate them for internal publication such as on an intranet, as well as for external publication on the Internet.
With constant evolution, security requirements and compatibility with new technologies are implemented in each version; and the availability of extensions allows hosting of non-Microsoft content such as PHP pages and Node.
With constant evolution, security requirements and compatibility with new technologies are implemented in each version; and the availability of extensions allows hosting of non-Microsoft content such as PHP pages and Node.
- Host native Microsoft technology as ASPNET
- Extension to expand technology support as SFTP, Node JS and PHP content
- Easy to install and maintenance, including Farm center configuration
- Scalable
- Compatible with Cloud services and containers
- Rich documentation and lots of community interaction
- Integrated to Windows version. It is not possible to upgrade the Microsoft IIS version without upgrading the Windows version
- Not easy to implement security recommendations as Top 10 OWASP, some times you need to edit the Windows registry, It sounds good for me.
- Need to keep Windows update "updated." Frequently security paths are released by the Windows update channel.
Microsoft IIS is being used by my organization to serve business and scientific applications for users in the organization and externally. The applications are a mixture of ASP.NET, .NET MVC, and more recently .NET Core. It is an integral part of our IT services, and each instance often serves over 10 applications.
- Microsoft familiarity
- Already on most Windows machines
- Fairly easy to setup a .NET application in it
- Fairly robust
- Complicated to configure if it's not out of the box
- Shuts down app pools and applications after a certain amount of non-use time and makes it hard to stop this behavior--this makes running scheduled tasks with something like Hangfire in your app more difficult (you often need to pull this out into a Windows service or something), which I think is unnecessary
- Quite slow when compared to modern open-source servers
- Logging errors and things in EventViewer is hell--considering EventViewer on an under load Windows server can barely draw itself in under five minutes
- Unlikable interface
Microsoft IIS is utilized as part of our Siebel and other intranet web applications to support the Canadian Immigration System. It is used across the entire department for applications utilized worldwide.
- Integrates with Active Directory to provide single sign-on with out prompting for a password
- Simple and easy to deploy
- Security Patches are included as part of OS Patching
- Nothing comes to mind--product works as expected.
September 21, 2019
Microsoft IIS Server - Honest review by a FullStack developer
We use Microsoft IIS for specific requirements on client deliverables. Certain projects require us to implement Microsoft IIS for overall project hosting and delivery. Microsoft IIS is very easy to install, and its GUI is very informative. The Microsoft Server facilitates implementation of SQL database seamless. It is very useful due to its simplicity for small projects which primarily require CRUD operations in SQL.
- Troubleshooting problems is very easy due to the server logs, which are maintained by default in Microsoft IIS.
- Awesome integration with Visual Studio and dot NET applications.
- Best performance with Microsoft tools and services, because of its native nature with them.
- Microsoft IIS' performance, in comparison with lean web-servers like Nginx and Apache, has a lot of room for improvement.
- Since it is a non-open source solution and a proprietary Microsoft software, it is tied with Microsoft Windows OS, which is prone to new security vulnerabilities on a frequent basis.
- The logging of errors is very vague in nature sometimes, which makes it difficult to get to the root cause of the error, and means it takes more time in debugging.
February 13, 2019
There is no place for web sites like IIS
I and my IT department currently and previously use Microsoft IIS as the main web server solution for internal and public-facing websites. In a Microsoft environment, I think, this is the best option for the web server. Easy to deploy the server, easy upload websites. Didn't have too many issues with Microsoft ISS, simple to use, saves time on deployment. Our current IIS environment contains not only internal and external websites but several web services that interact with third-party services for identity, fraud detection, etc.
- Easy to deploy and minimum time for the first startup.
- Supports a large variety of web technologies.
- Easy website and applications management.
- The best integration with Microsoft AD for user authentication.
- It is regularly patched.
- For some web applications, it takes additional time to configure IIS to make a website work.
- IIS logging - it is not the strongest side of the product.
- Compared to Apache or Nginx, IIS uses way more system resources.
- Even with regular patches, IIS has many vulnerabilities.
December 11, 2015
IIS, keeping up with the opensource servers with its own strengths.
We used Microsoft IIS to run several in house applications that were used for supporting our technical support department. These applications were written in ASPX.
- Easy to set up.
- Very easy to manage with the Microsoft IIS GUI.
- Quick to load the applications.
- Better custom logging generation line with Apache or Nginx.
December 02, 2015
Microsoft IIS - Good for certain situations
Within our department, Microsoft IIS is being used as a web server for sites that require Windows based components. Our main use for Microsoft IIS is for sites that use the ASP.NET framework. However, we also use IIS for Microsoft systems management software. Which includes both System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM ConfigMgr 2012) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Microsoft IIS allows for us to better host our Windows based components than current open source solutions.
- Microsoft IIS provides an in depth GUI that helps for managing sites.
- Native support of the ASP.NET framework for web applications. Overall this has given us better compatibility than a Apache/Mono setup.
- Since it's a Microsoft product, it's natively better integrated with our Windows based environment (Active Directory).
- The performance of Microsoft IIS is always slightly behind more lean web servers like Apache and NGINX.
- Microsoft IIS is locked to the Windows Operating System. For some components (SCCM and WSUS) you are essentially forced to use IIS, instead of a more open source Apache or Mono solution.
- Security concerns over Windows IIS web servers. While this isn't directly the fault of IIS, since issues usually occur from vulnerabilities within the Windows OS.
- IIS is closed source, which does remove customizability and the ability for the community to review the code base. An open source web server will usually has less exploits, since the code base can be reviewed and debugged by anyone.