Microsoft IIS

Microsoft IIS

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft IIS	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft IIS is an application server and infrastructure.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Microsoft Sandro Silva IT Consultant in Customer Service at dormakaba (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) 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 in Information Technology at Dynacare (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) 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 in Marketing at Franklin Sports (Sporting Goods, 201-500 employees) 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 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 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 in Information Technology at STMicroelectronics (Semiconductors, 10,001+ employees) 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 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 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 in Information Technology at Quzel Consulting (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees) 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 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? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Kochtan Technical Lead in Information Technology at Newell Rubbermaid (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist in Information Technology at Left Right Mind (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) 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? Valery Mezentsau IT Department Manager in Information Technology at Acceptance Solutions Group (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) 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 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 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 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 in Information Technology at Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (Religious Institutions, 201-500 employees) 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 Chose Microsoft IIS We actually use both platforms in conjunction with each other. Incentivized Helpful? Leo Brewer Information Security Architect in Information Technology at CareFusion (Medical Devices, 10,001+ employees) 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 in Information Technology at Insight (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees) 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 in Information Technology at Lynch Strategies \| A Marketing Agency (Internet, 1-10 employees) 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 in Information Technology at ScentAir (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) 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 in Information Technology at University of North Texas (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) 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 Chose Microsoft IIS Again Microsoft IIS is perfect for us due to the ease of use by our support team. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Microsoft IIS

Comparison of Application Servers features of Microsoft IIS
Feature	Microsoft IIS 7.5 28 Ratings
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

User Ratings
	Microsoft IIS
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (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)