IIS stands
for Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly known as Internet
Information Server) IIS is a web server software package designed for Windows
Server. IIS Manager console of Internet Information Services 8.5 initial
release on May 30, 1995.
IIS provides
a redesigned WWW architecture that can help you achieve better performance,
scalability, reliability, and security for our Web sites. IIS is used to host
an application over Web Server and is accessible from client systems via a web
browser.
Characteristics
of IIS
- Componentization: Reducing surface area is
one of the most powerful ways to secure a server system.
- Extensibility: Extending IIS enables Web
applications to benefit from functionality that in many cases cannot be
easily provided at the application layer.
- Build custom: We can add custom features
to extend or replace any existing functionality using your own or third
party server components built on the new extensibility APIs.
- Database Manager: IIS Database Manager
provides the ability to connect to any database on the network.
- Web Platform Installer: The best one for end
website users. The web platform installer is a gallery of the popular
softwares installation.
Advantages
of IIS
- Secure the server by reducing
the attack surface area.
- Improve performance and reduce
memory footprint.
- Empower Web applications.
- Quality enhancements with lots
of bug fixes.
- Application Warm-Up tech for
best web performance.
Disadvantages
of IIS
- Managing large IIS server
configurations or multiple servers over the Internet can be slow and
cumbersome.
- Not all configuration properties
can be accessed in the user interface.
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