Benefit of Using IIS or Windows for ServiceStack

Question

I wrote a C # server application (Windows service) that serves data through REST with ServiceStack for different clients (native applications written in the .NET Compact Framework and Mono for Android). No web apps.

Will using IIS to host my server instead of using it myself as a Windows service give me any advantage (speed, scalability, reliability)?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The benefits of using IIS are that it provides automatic management of ASP.NET hosts, for example. it will recycle your AppDomain during downtime to recover server resources for unused web hosts, which also reduces the effects of memory leaks in your application code. It also imposes default restrictions for protection against DDDOS attacks and supports the ability to redeploy your application without downtime, that is, pending requests freeze until a new deployed application is launched.

Self-Host HttpListener - the main thing is that they work without a web server. It does not include any HTTP request restrictions, which is an advantage if you want to support downloading large files. They are harder to redeploy and there will be downtime during deployment.