What are the benefits of IIS 7?
IIS 7 is Microsoft's latest version of its Internet Information Services Web server. Its modular architecture provides a platform for the development and deployment of dynamic Web applications and websites. IIS 7 was designed for security, speed and ease of use.
Our hosting accounts running IIS 7 are compatible with ASP.NET runtime 3.5 and 4.0, a development framework that supports numerous Web technologies, including Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WC) and Silverlight. For more information, see .NET Framework.
IIS 7 offers two pipeline modes. Integrated pipeline mode handles all requests through a unified pipeline because of the integration of ASP.NET's runtime with the Web server. IIS 7's classic mode behaves in the same manner as IIS 6, using two pipelines to process requests--one for native-code application components and the other for managed code application components.
IIS 7 supports PHP 5, allowing for the installation of a variety of PHP 5 quick-install applications and the use of PHP 5 scripts and code. PHP 4 is not supported.
For more information on Internet Information Services 7, see Microsoft's Internet Information Services 7.0.