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Good idea or not? IIS Intranet server on machine running
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06/04/2012 18:40:46
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Microsoft IIS Server
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>>>>>>In fact the service record of IIS 7 for vulnerabilities has been much better than any of the *nix servers available.
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>>>>>Interesting... do you have some stats to back that?
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>>>>A quick bing search on 'iis7 security vs apache' seems to at least put them on equal terms.
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>>>Hmm... on both Bing and Google the first page of results has nothing newer than 2010, most results 2007 - 2009. That's about 1,000 years old in human years < g >
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>>And IIS has gone through major overhauls over the last few years - If anything I think the field tilts much more to IIS for security.
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>IIS 7.5 was apparently released October 2009, 7.0 before that. I believe the major rearchitecting of IIS was going from 5x to 6x, which was quite a while ago.
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>Coincidentally, Apache 2.0 was released exactly 10 years ago today, but there have been lots of point versions. Wikipedia says the most recent is 2.4.1, released 45 days ago.
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>So, comparisons of IIS 7.x vs. Apache 2.x may still be relevant even if they're a few years old.
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>A lot of ISPs are slow to change, NetCraft thinks your site is running on W2K/IIS5: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://kuhngroup.com

The kuhngroup.com site is hosted at web.com. Dunno what it is running on and never had an issue.
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