IIS for Application Hosting
March 28, 2016
IIS for Application Hosting
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft IIS
Microsoft IIS is an integral part of any infrastructure and in my own, counts for a significant portion of internal and external application delivery. As a tried and true web server platform, we confidently trust this server extension with some of our most important web applications.
- Largely expandable to meet different security requirements.
- As a Microsoft product, documentation and other support resources are widely available.
- High availability and robustness lead to low administrative overhead
- Logging may be a little tricky without appropriate parsing tools.
- Application pools may be misconfigured when built by an application. Sometimes manual performance tweaking is necessary.
- Update cycle could be a little tighter but not a legitimate complaint
- Prime contributer to successful application delivery
- Higher security risk when used in a public facing scenario.
- Robust support environment even without invoking the vendor.
We actually use both platforms in conjunction with each other.