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 solution's most valuable feature is reporting."
"It is scalable."
"It's very stable, and it hosts one of the biggest of many biggest web applications in the world."
"It's reliable, configurable and generally secure."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"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 product is very cheap and stable."
"Most of the features I liked were related to the performance during peak hours."
"The product is stable."
"The solution is simple and very easy to manage compared to Linux."
"When you are working with Microsoft solutions, you will see that the integration with the operating system, and implementing some security features, are easier in IIS than when using another solution."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is that it's free, and it works."
"It's very easy to publish."
"Microsoft's technical support has always been very good."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is it does not consume a lot of resources. It does not consume a lot of resources, such as memory."
"The tool shows us the operating systems where our servers and applications are running."
"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."
"Lacks integration with some cloud solutions."
"The GUI for the less experienced users needs some improvement. For some companies, it is hard to configure it if they have not had any experience."
"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."
"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."
"The interface has room for improvement."
"The level of technical support the solution offers could be improved."
"We'd like future versions to be more stable."
"Sometimes, we encounter difficult issues, and getting support from Microsoft to resolve those issues is not easy."
"The solution's black box is not fast."
"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."
"I am using an older version of Windows Server IIS and the general management and navigation to get something done is not as straightforward as I hope it to be. The interface could be improved."
"At the moment, we have big problems with stability, and I'm not very happy at the moment. So, the stability 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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