We performed a comparison between IIS and Windows Server AppFabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."The graphical user interface makes it easy for users to configure the sites."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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 the database it provides."
"IIS is useful for the deployment of web applications...Its stability is good."
"All the features of Microsoft IIS are valuable."
"We use the solution for our customer's web applications."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable feature is AppFabric's hosting solution, which is what we need for running workflows."
"It is very usable and easy to understand. Antivirus and VPN are the main features being used now. It allows my clients to access the network from home, which was very crucial because of the pandemic."
"The product's deployment phase was very easy."
"The price of the solution could be less to improve."
"I would like to see NLB features in IIS."
"IIS has some stability issues and needs restarting."
"IIS could improve by having some features related to ASR and HTTPS certificate generation."
"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."
"The graphical user interface has room for improvement and can be more user-friendly."
"The solution should improve the cluster environment and load balancing."
"Compared to Linux, the solution’s Windows patching is slower. I would like to improve it."
"Microsoft will stop supporting the product next year, and we can't run unsupported programs in our systems."
"The product is unable to connect with different cloud services."
"Its price and licensing policy can be improved. It could be a little cheaper. Licensing is sometimes confusing. There are so many different options. It is difficult to find out what to buy or what to choose for my necessity."
IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews while Windows Server AppFabric is ranked 18th in Application Infrastructure with 3 reviews. IIS is rated 8.0, while Windows Server AppFabric is rated 8.0. 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 Server AppFabric writes "Offers good monitoring capabilities and ease of setup". IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat and Oracle Fusion Middleware, whereas Windows Server AppFabric is most compared with .
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