IIS - Do I Really Need It

[JCO]

Platform is W2K Professional.
I'm running IIS because it had to be loaded in order to install FrontPage
Extensions. IIS really slow my network down. Is there anyway to unload it
when not needed yet load it when it is needed (on the fly). Even if I can
kill it from the Task Manager?

This really brings up the question as to ... do I really need it? The
server must have FP Ext., that's understandable. But why must I have
extensions and IIS running?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

1. IIS should not slow down your network with the default install.

2. If you want the use the extensions, then you have to have IIS running. Yes, you could start and
stop the IIS service, but this is a manual process.

3. If you want to work with disk-based web, then you don't need to use IIS, but you would need to
publish the current web to a disk location, such c:\mywebsite, then you will loose the ability to
test any functions that require the server and/or extensions until you have publish to a server,
etc.

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[Kevin Spencer]

How can IIS slow your network down if all it is is a listener? It doesn't do
anything but respond to HTTP requests. Without a Request, it does NOTHING on
the network.

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Kevin Spencer
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