We performed a comparison between IIS and Windows Process Activation Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."The product is easy to use."
"The product is flexible."
"The product is scalable."
"The interface, simplicity, and ease of management are all good features that make this user-friendly."
"This is definitely a stable solution."
"The product is easy to configure."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"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 most valuable aspect of the solution is the central console, that allows you to see all of the activated and deactivated computers."
"The documentation is not very detailed. They need to improve it and add to it. They should ensure there are lots of visuals to help users better understand the solution."
"If Microsoft IIS could work well with AppOptics or things like PHP, Python, and other custom languages that run on the webserver, it would be ideal. I think there are cases where people need to use Apache instead of IIS when IIS doesn't work well with other web languages."
"IIS could improve the error logging. There are times we are not able to see the errors. More details would be helpful. Additionally, the configuring of the IIS should be allowed through coding instead of the classic view."
"It would be beneficial if you could automate security certificate monitoring with IIS."
"The solution's black box is not fast."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the cloud environment and the on-premises environment."
"IIS needs to improve its security. Its support needs to be faster and clear. The tool's licensing could be cheaper as well."
"The cost is a bit too high."
"The stability of the solution needs improvement."
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IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews while Windows Process Activation Services is ranked 23rd in Application Infrastructure. IIS is rated 8.0, while Windows Process Activation Services is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Process Activation Services writes "Central console enables us to see all of the activated and deactivated computers but it has poor alerts and frustrating technical support". IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat and Oracle Fusion Middleware, whereas Windows Process Activation Services is most compared with Microsoft .NET Framework.
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