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IIS is Microsoft's web server application, designed to run on Windows based servers, and competes with Apache HTTP server along with other web server applications. It is important to note that Microsoft's IIS is a paid service, resulting in long term increased variable costs maintaining, updating, and licensing IIS web servers. While Apache is FREE open source; get it for free, continue to use it for free, and get the updates for free. You only pay for the labor. Although it is true that Apache dominates the market, providing the web server application on more servers than all other web servers used today, combined, including Microsofts's, it is also equally important to notice that at least theoretically you have someone to blame, i.e. Microsoft, when something goes wrong since you are paying them. This means the opportunity to get customer support, which you have to pay for, from the manufacter of the software, where as with Apache you would pay a third party to provide support for the FREE Apache. This may seem trivial. And in my opininon it is. There remains a psychological leftover from history, where some think it is better to get support from those who break or provide a broken product, than to get support from an independent third party. However, in almost every case, it really is a person who provides support which had nothing to do with the creation of any problem, even within Microsoft products and services.

The bottom line is that you pay more upfront, you pay more to maintain, but you also expect more reliablity and more security, whether those expectations are based in reality or not.

Remember, server or web server tutorials, and subject matter in general are for "server people." For "server people," who build, maintain, and work on physical or virtual servers this is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. For those into developing web pages, sites, and content ("developer people" or "content people") to be placed on a server, this may be a COMPLETE WASTE OF YOUR TIME. It would be better to have a web site to work on, then when you find a need to know a little, you'll have the motivation to actually learn about apache in a meaningful way. And for those into developing movies or audio recording to bring to market, this is definitely a waste of your time. The people who built this web site you are on now know absolutely nothing about building or maintaining servers. And they didnt need to know, and further, if they had known, it would make absolutely no difference in their ability to make this web site; apples and oranges.

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