April 2017
Beginner
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9h 30m
English
ASP.NET Core applications obviously need a host to run, but the advantage here is ASP.NET Core is completely de-coupled from the hosting platform. Also, ASP.NET Core comes with a variety of hosting options, unlike the previous versions of ASP.NET like 4.5 and earlier versions. ASP.NET supports hosting in IIS, IIS Express, and can also be self-hosted using HTTP Servers like Kestrel, WebListener, and NGINX.
IIS is one of the most feature-rich web servers and is often preferred for production scenarios because of the management capabilities and access to other pluggable IIS modules. Technically, IIS simply acts as a reverse proxy in the case of ASP.NET Core, and the actual process receiving the requests would be ...
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