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I am diving into web development, both front and back end. I feel comfortable with administration, scripting and moderate coding in bash, Python and C++, but I am also a Windows fan (i love inner conflict). What are the votes on web servers? IIS is expensive and restrictive (has Windows adoption of open source changed this?) Apache has the history but seems to be at the root of most of my Infosec issues, and I know nothing about nginx (is it too new to rely on?). And no, I don't know what I want to do on the web explicitly, but hosting and data storage (both cloud and tape) are possibilities. Ready, aim fire!

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Simon Aronsson
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I would pick nginx over both IIS and Apace HTTP Server any day. Combine it with docker, and as you grow maybe even traefik, and you'll have a really flexible solution for serving http content where you can take sites and projects up and down without effort, easily move it between systems and dont have to handle any dependencies on your actual local machine.

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Pros of Microsoft IIS
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Pros of Puma
  • 83
    Great with .net
  • 55
    I'm forced to use iis
  • 27
    Use nginx
  • 18
    Azure integration
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    Best for ms technologyes ms bullshit
  • 10
    Fast
  • 6
    Reliable
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    Performance
  • 4
    Powerful
  • 3
    Simple to configure
  • 3
    Webserver
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    Easy setup
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    Shipped with Windows Server
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    Ssl integration
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    Security
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    • 4
      Free
    • 3
      Convenient
    • 3
      Easy
    • 2
      Multithreaded
    • 2
      Consumes less memory than Unicorn
    • 2
      Default Rails server
    • 2
      First-class support for WebSockets
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      Lightweight
    • 1
      Fast

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      Hard to set up
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        Uses `select` (limited client count)

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      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.

      What is Pow?

      Pow is a zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X. It makes developing Rails and Rack applications as frictionless as possible. You can install it in ten seconds and have your first app up and running in under a minute. No mucking around with /etc/hosts, no compiling Apache modules, no editing configuration files or installing preference panes. And running multiple apps with multiple versions of Ruby is trivial.

      What is Puma?

      Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.

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