The Microsoft whitepaper (Word document) "Comparing IIS and Apache: Questions and Answers" published in March 2009 has interesting counter arguments on the long raging debate on which of the two is better. It answers the following questions -
Based on a survey of 205+ million sites, Netcraft reports that Apache has a 54% share in July 2010 while IIS has 26%. As a poster on Channel9 says, this may not be the true measure of popularity as it counts sites & not servers. The results could be skewed because domain registration & hosting sites park thousands of sites on one instance of Apache.
- Does IIS offer the performance and scalability I need?
- Is IIS as secure as Apache?
- Is IIS harder to manage than Apache?
- Is IIS as reliable as Apache?
- Is IIS really as modular as Apache?
- Apache is an innovative platform. What about IIS?
- Troubleshooting Web applications can be complicated. What does IIS offer to simplify troubleshooting?
- I depend on a wide variety of Web architectures. Can I run them on IIS?
- Yes, PHP applications can run on IIS, but is it really a good idea?
- Will IIS be more expensive than Apache?
Based on a survey of 205+ million sites, Netcraft reports that Apache has a 54% share in July 2010 while IIS has 26%. As a poster on Channel9 says, this may not be the true measure of popularity as it counts sites & not servers. The results could be skewed because domain registration & hosting sites park thousands of sites on one instance of Apache.
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