What advantages of using IIS as a web server?

internet Information Services is used to make your computer a web server. If we want to have a web server for developing dynamic website or want to publish website on our own server then we install the IIS. IIS is used on Windows plate form

IIS takes request from user and executes the required files and sends result back to the user. IIS server also provides the services of SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol). We can send emails using SMTP. FrontPage server extensions are also the part of IIS. Using FrontPage server extension we can use the dynamic features of IIS like form handler, Hit counter and etc.

Additional information:

The most popular web server on the Internet is the Apacheweb server. The Apache web server is available from The Apache Software Foundation at

http://www.apache.org

To view hosting information on Apache and IIS, please visit

www.netcraft.com

and scan the page for the Web Server Survey.