Wednesday, August 21, 2013

What is IIS (Internet Information Server)?

Internet Information Services (IIS) – formerly called Internet Information Server and is is a group of Internet Server created by the Microsoft with additional capabilities for use with the Microsoft windows. It is most popular web server in the world as it consists of various modules extension.

It is supported by the TCP/IP model and the protocols supported include HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP.

It is based on the concept of dividing the work into the modules so that every supported component provided with the easy installation and increases the security of the server with reducing the risk factor as it rejects the suspicious files.

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