We performed a comparison between Apache Web Server and IIS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"It's very stable, and it hosts one of the biggest of many biggest web applications in the world."
"The most significant advantage is the ability to swiftly enable HTTPS services when my DNS is configured correctly."
"The control panel is very easy to navigate. It's similar to most hosting platforms, so it's user-friendly. Once you get used to it, managing your hosting becomes easy, too."
"The solution offers good security."
"It's reliable, configurable and generally secure."
"The best thing about Apache is that it is open-source, so implementing my platform on-premises is less expansive than other solutions."
"The solution's most valuable feature is reporting."
"The graphical user interface makes it easy for users to configure the sites."
"We use the solution for our customer's web applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to use and easy to understand."
"The solution has been reliable."
"IIS is stable."
"The interface, simplicity, and ease of management are all good features that make this user-friendly."
"IIS's best features are its management console and stability."
"It is a lightweight web host that is easy to configure for simple webpages."
"For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users."
"The product's initial setup process could be easier for users."
"By optimizing the infrastructure to allow the webserver to directly handle queries from memory—particularly by prioritizing the storage of queries in memory and processing them through the web server interface—I could potentially cut down the required instances from five hundred to two hundred."
"In future releases, I would like to see better server optimization."
"It would be great if technical support for Apache were available in Iran. It is a very important need."
"Adding a reverse proxy to Apache Web Server would be a significant improvement."
"A monitoring interface would be great for this product. The monitoring dashboards for Apache's models are not included in the basic installation. You can install the basic monitoring model, then connect this model to another monitoring system."
"Lacks integration with some cloud solutions."
"We'd like future versions to be more stable."
"There is an issue with the network. The tool's price is also high."
"Presently, some developers do not have technical knowledge of managing IIS, so that needs to be improved in the next release."
"IIS could improve by having some features related to ASR and HTTPS certificate generation."
"The platform's stability could be better."
"IIS has some stability issues and needs restarting."
"This solution needs to be easier for cases where you want to have an IIS cluster."
"The level of technical support the solution offers could be improved."
Apache Web Server is ranked 3rd in Application Infrastructure with 21 reviews while IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews. Apache Web Server is rated 8.6, while IIS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache Web Server writes "Has good security, speed and traffic handling features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". Apache Web Server is most compared with NGINX Plus, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft .NET Framework, Zend PHP Engine and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat, JBoss and Microsoft .NET Framework. See our Apache Web Server vs. IIS report.
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