Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0) breaks new ground in extensibility and ease of management and deployment. The new management tools provide a powerful, integrated way to manage both IIS and ASP.NET, using a rich graphical user interface or remotely callable APIs. The new extensibility architecture provides the ability to seamlessly integrate the new administration tools. An XML-based configuration system gives administrators greater flexibility for easier deployment of sites and applications. This release is not a set of incremental improvements. IIS7 is a dramatic leap forward that will benefit server administrators, developers, and Web site owners.
IIS 7.0 – the most powerful ever created Microsoft web-servers, equipped with an impressive array of new features that significantly improve the process of developing and deploying web-based solutions, as well as management. The modular structure of IIS 7.0 gives administrators unprecedented control over their web server for your hosting. Flexible and extensible architecture of services IIS7 opens completely new opportunities for developers to configure web servers. Thanks to the multilateral process management capabilities to deploy and manage web applications on IIS 7.0 are easier and more efficient than on any other web server. In addition, powerful diagnostics and troubleshooting helps users to solve them quickly, avoiding long hours of downtime.
The main component of IIS is a web server is WWW service (also called W3SVC), which gives customers access to sites via HTTP and, if configured, HTTPS.
Below are just some reasons to try IIS 7.0 today.
More control
- Centralized web-based management.
- Setting up the web infrastructure and its management from a single location with a wide range of administrative tools.
- Ease of deployment.
- Archiving, packaging, transport and deployment of complete applications and web servers.
More choice
- Modular web server.
- Optimization of network loads and configures the transfer of content through intelligent bandwidth management.
- Support for PHP and ASP.NET.
- Joint development and deployment of ASP.NET and PHP applications on a flexible web platform.
More reliable
- Scalable web infrastructure.
- Scalable web infrastructure with load balancing based on HTTP and IP processing and routing requests.
- Dynamic caching and compression.
- Increased productivity due to fast dynamic caching and compression.
- Developed diagnostic tools.
- Developed diagnostic tools for rapid detection and troubleshooting.
More security
- Advanced server protection.
- Improving website security by reducing the load on the server and automatic isolation of application.
- Securely publishing your content.
- Safer publish web content using standard protocols.
- Protection against unauthorized access.
- Protecting web servers and web applications from malicious requests, and unauthorized access.