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IIS 7.0 Learns a Few Tricks from Apache
An anonymous reader writes "According to BetaNews, Microsoft is learning a few tricks from Apache for the next release of IIS, version 7.0. Specifically, the IIS feature set has been broken down into modules to reduce overhead. Modules can be changed on the fly, without restarting the Web server. Also, the IIS metabase has been completely dropped in favor of easily editable XML configuration files. Each Web application can have its own config file that overrides the system-wide configuration."
Why is it do they think that an eight year old Linux box running Apache can serve up such huge volume versus a latest and greatest IIS server?
.conf files.
Uhh proof? In my own non-scientific experiments, IIS6 smokes a modern Apache box, let alone an 8 year old one.
The fact that they are even talking about doing this rather than simply implementing the feature and then talking about it troubles me though.
The Microsoft developers are talking and blogging about this to get community feedback. This has long been an informal Microsoft tradition, and is now becoming more formal and widespread. Anyone who hangs out on MSDN or Channel 9 knows this.
I want simplicity of management and therefore went with standard OSX hosting systems.
I find it funny you complain about performance earlier in your post and then say you use OS X servers, which are notorious for their poor server/network io performance. Still, client-side OS X is my favorite OS of all time.
but it is certainly easier to manage than Linux or IIS.
It's easier to manage than IIS in the same way that Commodore 64s are more secure than UNIX. Much of the web server's configuration options are hidden from you in the OS X server admin tools.
Often, us OS X administrators need to do more tweaking than the GUI tools allow, and thus, we must dive into the complete nightmare that is Apache
And you're on total crack if you claim that Apache is easier than IIS to configure.
If Microsoft wants me to switch
It's funny when anti-MS zealots say this. As if they'd ever use anything from a company they consider the anti-christ.
they had better come out with something truly special rather than simply aping the rest of the industry.
They already have. While IIS5 was good, it was inferior to Apache, imho. As far as I'm concerned, IIS6 blows the doors off of Apache in terms of speed, power, and configuration.
You're an ignorant dumb ass. Why?
1.) ASP.NET is NOT ASP and NOT scripting. ASP and PHP are analogs, JSP/Servlets and ASP.NET are analogs.
2.) ASP.NET is not 1GB, its more ~25mb or so. The entire MS development environment (Windows apps, ASP.NET/enterprise database dev tools/mobile development/all the SDKs and MSDN are about 1GB on my machine).
And if you want to argue about something stupid like framework size, let's talk about all the frameworks you see installed on the average Linux box.
3.) A framework's size does not have anything to do with robustness.
Yet another stupid, clueless Linux user who argues against Windows using Windows 95-era bullet items, gotta love it.