21 engineers on Hacker News describe using IIS first-hand: 4 endorse it, 5 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“As someone who's been using IIS for 20+ years, it's all very straightforward to me.”
endorse · production · 20 yr · jaywalk · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ASP.NET on IIS running the public sites. ... the application pool will recycle itself and the site will spring back to life”
endorse · production · 15 yr · jasonkester · 2019-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it works in dev, but it explodes in prod and I don't know why... Because it's in the thousands, and those thousands of hours is exactly why we use docker.”
regret · production · jaabe · 2019-03-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it is a drag to have everything go down because IIS has decided to recycle your app pool due to 20 minutes of front-end inactivity.”
regret · production · douche · 2015-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'll take *nix and Java all day over IIS/Windows server. No thank you”
regret · production · manyxcxi · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using c# since beta and I love it but agree that IIS is a cluster fuck”
regret · production · SonicSoul · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the web hosting solutions for c# web apps are terrible compared to IIS + Windows”
endorse · production · socialist_coder · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We actually didn't fare to well ourselves and had a poor experience trying to debug them in IIS, in the end we moved to a bespoke windows service”
regret · production · mythz · 2011-03-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use IIS 7.5 for http, tcp, and message queue serving. It's fast and simple.”
endorse · production · kogir · 2010-06-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All based on Apache, IIS and Tcl.”
neutral · production · pjmlp · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“especially useful when you want to attach to a start-up routine in an IIS hosted web-app.”
neutral · production · xnorswap · 2024-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am used to creating "web application" and running it on a web server of some sort: Apache / IIS /Lite.”
neutral · production · ThinkBeat · 2021-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using Tcl as Apache/IIS plugin in our own AOLServer inspired application server”
neutral · production · pjmlp · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've stuck a dll from a dev machine onto a prod IIS instance and restarted it for changes to take effect.”
neutral · production · solarengineer · 2020-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows Server 2016 behind IIS/kestrel/nginx and every other supporting tech on Linux”
neutral · production · majkinetor · 2019-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after 10 years of on-premise deployments, VM Ware, SQL Clusters, web.config, IIS, ARR”
neutral · production · 10 yr · mcs_ · 2018-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're a .net shop like I said, that means we run on IIS”
neutral · production · sidstling · 2018-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after we switched off of IIS to the self-hosted OWIN web server stack for a couple of projects”
neutral · production · douche · 2017-02-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this for some months now and it really makes my daily job with IIS site management a whole lot easier!”
neutral · production · walkie · 2014-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“unless a client forces us into MsSQL/IIS.”
neutral · production · trebor · 2012-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our production environment is running on Windows + IIS + .Net”
neutral · production · aespinoza · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?