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Choosing between IIS and Apache Webserver?

Is Apache Webserver a competitor of IIS?

Is one of them better than the other? What are their pros and cons?

Is it that Java Web Applications use Apache Webserver and ASP.Net applications use IIS? or can either applications be hosted on Apache Webserver or IIS?

Are there any other popular Webservers?

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ChopperCentury

Apache is the more stable of the two. IIS is not good at memory utilization, even with all the fancy tools.

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Dave Baldwin

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Ricky White

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Is it correct that for a high traffic website we should preferably use Apache server(Mono) and not IIS?

Also is the performance of a website mainly driven by the Webserver being used and not by the programming language used(ASP.Net, PHP etc)?

Dave Baldwin

'Mono' does not provide full implementation of .NET technologies. You need to make sure that it will do what you need before using it.

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Ricky White

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Thanks all!