Chapter 16. Working the Web with IIS 7.0 and 7.5

It is official: the Internet is here to stay. More than a passing fad for streaming video, comedy, and up-to-the-minute news, the Internet has also become a primary data distribution medium for the world. Whether you shop online, use the Internet for research, or even just use an application on your job that is supported by a web server, you have undoubtedly been touched by the technology that Microsoft's Internet Information Services is all about. According to the ISC's Internet Domain Survey, the number of hosted domains on the Internet currently exceeds 433 million. Meanwhile, www.internetworldstats.com reports that as of June 30, 2009 more than 1.2 billion folks are using the Internet in some ...

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