IIS Reviews

Name: IIS
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4 (31 reviews)

Vendor: Microsoft

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Internet Information Services (IIS) provides a secure, easy-to-manage, modular and extensible platform for reliably hosting websites, services and applications. With IIS, you get choice and control without giving up reliability or security.

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Hussein Taha

IT Enterprise System Administrator at Misr Technology Services

Dec 5, 2022

What is our primary use case Our primary use case for the solution is serving as a port for publishing URLs, especially for our share point team. Additionally, it helps scan and mitigates our vulnerabilities using the best protocols to secure our environment. In the world of cybersecurity, there…

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Himanshu Mesvani

Owner at Digipro systems

Mar 23, 2023

What is our primary use case Regarding the use cases of IIS in our organization, we use it for our web-based in-house applications. What is most valuable? Feature-wise, I would say that it is easily configurable with the development tools of Microsoft. What needs improvement? It lacks a…

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Vishal Mirchandani

Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer at Znet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Feb 16, 2023

What is our primary use case I use IIS to deploy applications for customers and end users who want to publish their application or domain and access the same globally. They have to deploy their application over IIS so that some, like Binding, MDIS, and other application security services, can be…

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Pricing

"It is licensed with your Windows installation which makes it relatively cheap if you already have a Windows Server sitting around."
"This solution comes included with Windows Server."
"The price of the cloud system is a bit high."

Valuable Features

"It is a lightweight web host that is easy to configure for simple webpages."
"The solution is the easiest way to publish applications which have been designed by older development tools."
"This is definitely a stable solution."

Room For Improvement

"Finding different settings can be difficult if you don't know where to look."
"The scalability depends on how you have set it up. If you're running IIS on a single server, it might not be as capable as if you are on many in a cluster or with load balancing and so on."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting."

Pricing

"It is licensed with your Windows installation which makes it relatively cheap if you already have a Windows Server sitting around."
"This solution comes included with Windows Server."
"The price of the cloud system is a bit high."

Valuable Features

"It is a lightweight web host that is easy to configure for simple webpages."
"The solution is the easiest way to publish applications which have been designed by older development tools."
"This is definitely a stable solution."

Room For Improvement

"Finding different settings can be difficult if you don't know where to look."
"The scalability depends on how you have set it up. If you're running IIS on a single server, it might not be as capable as if you are on many in a cluster or with load balancing and so on."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting."

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IIS was previously known as Windows Server IIS.

IIS is the #1 ranked solution in top Application Infrastructure tools and #4 ranked solution in top Application Server tools. PeerSpot users give IIS an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. IIS is most commonly compared to NGINX Plus: IIS vs NGINX Plus. IIS is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 14% of all views.