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 is very cheap and stable."
"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 open-source nature is one of its most significant advantages."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"It is scalable."
"Most of the features I liked were related to the performance during peak hours."
"The solution offers good security."
"It's very stable, and it hosts one of the biggest of many biggest web applications in the world."
"All the features of Microsoft IIS are valuable."
"The solution is very simple to use and easy to deploy."
"The tool is very easy to use and efficient."
"IIS is easy to configure in terms of websites and other solutions."
"The solution is highly reliable."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is the database it provides."
"IIS has a very simple and user-friendly interface, which helps a lot in effective and efficient management."
"It's very easy to publish."
"The product's initial setup process could be easier for users."
"Things change very fast. We're always on the lookout for better approaches and tools. If the solution falls behind, we may have to switch."
"Its stability could be better."
"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."
"There is a security-related problem that depends on the web server's configuration."
"It would be great if technical support for Apache were available in Iran. It is a very important need."
"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."
"I would like to see NLB features in IIS."
"The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"Occasionally, we encounter performance issues with IIS where it becomes unresponsive and requires a solution restart."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the cloud environment and the on-premises environment."
"IIS's memory management could be improved."
"Sometimes if you are using IIS in large-scale scenarios, meaning that if you are deploying an application within IIS service and you are expecting a large number of users to use this application, you can sometimes find some problems, meaning that the service can shut down by itself unexpectedly if you don't configure your IIS with the correct configuration that can handle this number of users."
"This solution needs to be easier for cases where you want to have an IIS cluster."
"The solution's black box is not fast."
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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