Windows 2008 & IIS 7 Overview

Windows 2008 Server and IIS 7 are now beginning to make their appearance on the web hosting market. Let’s take a quick look at some of the features.

With Internet Information Server 7 you get:

• a highly stable and secure environment for your web applications
• easier administration
• better server clustering

IIS 7 Modular Architecture

Customizing the way your web server processes requests is now made easier with the management of native (Win32 DLL) and managed code modules (developed with ASP.NET 2.0 / 3.0 or C++). These modules gives you control over:

• security (authentication, certificates, IP security, request filtering, etc.)
• application development (ISAPI, CGI, Server Side Include, ASP, ASP.NET)
• health and diagnostic (HTTP logging, request monitor, ODBC logging, etc.)
• FTP publishing
• performance (static and dynamic compression)
• management (console, scripting, legacy scripts and snap-in, etc.)
• common HTTP components (static file module, redirects, custom errors)
• Windows process activation service

IIS 7 Installation 

Unlike previous versions of IIS, where it was once presented as a service only, Internet Information Server 7 is now a role just like DNS, DHCP, PDC emulator, etc.

Internet Information Server 7 allows backward compatibility with IIS 6 so that migrating your website or web applications is made easier.

IIS 7 and ASP.net Unified Configuration

Internet Information Server 7 provides administrators and developers with unified configuration settings stored in an XML file. This new configuration system supports distributed configuration files, which can be stored along with Web site or application content. Web site and application configuration can now be stored in a “web.config” file with ASP.NET configuration so that it can be copied easily from a web server to another.

FastCGI

FastCGI for IIS 7 allows you to run PHP applications on your web server in a high-performance and reliable way.

Windows 2008 and IIS 7 Web Hosting

If you’re looking to host your website on a Windows 2008 server with IIS 7, we recommend you take a look into EasyCGI’s hosting plans.

Windows 2008 and IIS 7 Shared Hosting Packages

• $7.96 / Month: 350GB of storage, 3500GB of bandwidth, ASP, ASP.net 1.1/2.0, .Net Framework 3.5, PHP, Perl, AJAX, MySQL
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