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I would say 75% of my webservers are IIS. Nothing internet facing mind.

• forgetfreeman 4mo ago
  but...why?
  • swarnie 4mo ago
    Really simple. I read the prerequisites of whatever software im asked to install and do what it says. I'm not spending the next 3 years of my life trying to make some monitoring platform run on WebLogic i have other jobs to do in 4-8-12 hours.
    • jabroni_salad 4mo ago
      this is one of the funniest recurring threads on HN. developers finding out what other developers are requiring from their customers. Bonus points for developers finding out that non-cloud solutions still dominate some industries.
      • forgetfreeman 4mo ago
        Cloud's got nothing to do with it. The thought of standing up a windows box to serve anything other than profiles and user surveillance is simply foreign. Budget webhosting has been a thing for a long time and standing up a *nix VM is also no big deal. In 25 years in industry I never once saw an IIS server used in the wild. shrug
        • swarnie 4mo ago
          I'm surprised by this, maybe its industry specific. An 80:20 split of windows server to everything else has been pretty common in the areas I've worked both as a <10 day contactor and as a FTE.
          • forgetfreeman 4mo ago
            Era may also be a major factor. When I was coming up through the ranks it was common wisdom, even in corporate windows-centric shops, that IIS was a vulnerability factory on par with sendmail.