IIS slower than a service application?

RichardETVS posted on Monday, March 12, 2007

 

Someone told me that IIS is slow and maybe would not be a good solution for hosting the server side of a distributed application ; that it would be better to have a application running as a service. And beside that, we do not need some features of IIS, as identification, security, and the like.

 

Well, I am a little sceptic and I’ll run tests. But if you have any thoughts about that, I’ll read them with interest.

 

Thank you :) !

 

Richard

ajj3085 replied on Monday, March 12, 2007

IIS may be slower if its also serving other unrelated requests.  A dedicated service would only be handling your applications requests.  Maybe that's what your friend was refering to?  I would be interested in any metrics you can post.

Of course you'll need to consider speed, which to some extent can be offset by simply getting a faster CPU and other hardware, vs. the need to maintain your custom service.  You'll be coding it, which takes time, and you'll have to maintain it as well, meaning that if it starts not to perform well you'll have to invest more time into, and also you'll need to figure out any bugs on your own as well.

I would suggest going with IIS first, and if performance IS a problem, perhaps looking at another solution.  Of course, using any application server will impact performance, so you should only go down that route if you need to scale out.

RichardETVS replied on Monday, March 12, 2007

Interesting advice, ajj, thanks :)