Internet Information Server (IIS) is one of the most popular web servers from Microsoft that is used to host and provide Internet-based services to ASP.NET and ASP Web applications. A web server is responsible for providing a response to requests that come from users.

Stands for “Internet Information Services.” IIS is a web server software package designed for Windows Server. It is used for hosting websites and other content on the Web. Microsoft’s Internet Information Services provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing websites and the associated users.

Internet Information Services (IIS) is a flexible, general-purpose web server from Microsoft that runs on Windows systems to serve requested HTML pages or files. An IIS web server accepts requests from remote client computers and returns the appropriate response.

Heightened features in IIS 8.0 for Windows Server 2012

• FTP Logon Attempt Restrictions.
• CPU Throttling.
• Application Initialization Module.
• Centralized management of SSL certificates.
• Server Name Indication (SNI): SSL Scalability.
• Support for ASP.NET 4.5 / 4.0 / 3.5.
• ASP.NET Configuration Management.

Enabling IIS and required IIS components on Windows 10

1. Open Control Panel and click Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off.
2. Enable Internet Information Services.
3. Expand the Internet Information Services feature and verify that the web server components listed in the next section are enabled.
4. Click OK.

Open IIS manager and on the left side click on the name of your computer. You will then see a similar list of icons on the right as shown in the screenshot below. Double click on “Worker Processes” and you can get a list of which processes are currently running.

Step 1 – Delete all cached objects

1. Launch IIS Manager.
2. Select the server in the navigation tree view.
3. Double-click Application Request Routing Cache.
4. In the Actions pane, click Delete All Cached Objects.
5. In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services. In the Connections pane, expand the machine’s name, then expand Sites, then Default Web Site (or your web site, if renamed). Right-click acuxbis and select Remove from the popup menu.

To configure rapid-fail protection

1. In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, expand Application Pools, right-click the application pool, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Health tab.
3. In the Failures box, type the number of worker process failures to be detected before disabling the worker process.

To uninstall IIS via the Server Manager: If you wish to remove certain roles (IIS in my case) and features, you will have to use the “Remove Roles and Features” wizard of Server Manager. By just unchecking the IIS Web Server Role, you will be able to remove (uninstall) the IIS web server role at once.

IIS is a free Windows Feature included in Windows 10, so why not use it? IIS is a full-featured web and FTP server with some powerful admin tools, strong security features, and can be used to host ASP.NET and PHP applications on the same server. You can even host WordPress sites on IIS.