Why developers like Microsoft IIS

What is Microsoft IIS?

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

Microsoft IIS is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.

Who uses Microsoft IIS?

Companies

6015 companies reportedly use Microsoft IIS in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Intuit, and Alibaba Travels.

Accenture

Intuit

Alibaba Travels

MasterCard

ViaVarejo

Agoda

MIT

Starbucks

SpaceX

Developers

9165 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Microsoft IIS.

Web Stack

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tivipeek

Cupong.me

Packages Used

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Microsoft IIS Integrations

Datadog, ASP.NET Core, Lucee, Server Density, and Kallithea are some of the popular tools that integrate with Microsoft IIS. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Microsoft IIS.

Datadog

ASP.NET Core

Lucee

Server Density

Kallithea

Simplify.Web

Logit.io

SnappyFlow

observIQ

Pros of Microsoft IIS

Great with .net

I'm forced to use iis

Use nginx

Azure integration

Best for ms technologyes ms bullshit

Fast

Reliable

Performance

Powerful

Simple to configure

Webserver

Easy setup

Shipped with Windows Server

Ssl integration

Security

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Decisions about Microsoft IIS

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Microsoft IIS in their tech stack.

Chris Bleck

Site Reliability Engineer at Cooperative Bank Of Thessaly · Sep 20, 2023 | 5 upvotes · 20K views

Needs advice

Graylog

and

Prometheus

We are a small bank and we have 5 VMware ESXi servers with mainly Windows Server VMs with numerous windows services installed and most of these servers have Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft IIS installed. Also we have some applications that have application logs (mainly in a db table) and we have a few Hangfire instances and one MQ Series server.

Now the management gave me the task of site reliability (I'm fairly new to this) which means all Windows Services must run 24/7 so I have to know if a service fails to start. All databases must run properly so I have to know locks, Query performance, and any SQL Agent job failures. The same goes for IIS websites/services must be up and running all the time.

In addition to these, I must collect all the Hangfire job failures(which are a lot) as well as general server metrics like CPU, RAM, I/O Disk, Disk sizes, etc.

On top of all these, I must setup alerts via Slack/sms or mail. Now the question which tool or a stack of tools can achieve all that?

Brenda Mejak

May 27, 2021 | 3 upvotes · 405.3K views

Needs advice

Apache HTTP Server

Microsoft IIS

and

NGINX

I am currently in school for computer science and am doing a class project about web servers. Our assignment is to research and select one of these web servers. Could you please let me know which one you would choose among NGINX, Microsoft IIS, and Apache HTTP Server and why?

Nirbhay Singh

Sep 22, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 19.9K views

Needs advice

ASP.NET Core

and

Owin

Hi, I have an old web app written in HTML and JavaScript and hosted at Microsoft IIS. But due to some restrictions on the production environment, we can not enable IIS. I tried to create an Owin app and hosted it in a desktop service and everything is working fine. But I am not aware of the Pros and Cons of using OWIN app and hosting in windows service. Can anyone please tell me the Pros and Cons of using OWIN interface and windows service and also if there are any other alternatives available and why should I go for that alternative? Note: All of my web app pages are static pages. Thanks, Nirbhay

Farzeem Diamond Jiwani

Software Engineer at IVP · Jul 21, 2020 | 8 upvotes · 1.4M views

Needs advice

AppDynamics

Datadog

and

Dynatrace

Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

Please advise on the above. Thanks!

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Microsoft IIS Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Microsoft IIS?

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Microsoft SharePoint

It empowers teamwork with dynamic and productive team sites for every project team, department, and division. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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