The article compiles several Zhihu contributors' explanations—covering historical Windows dominance, IIS limitations, cost differences, ecosystem strength, container support, and open‑source politics—to show why Linux has become the default operating system for modern servers.
The Windows 11 24H2 KB5055523 update unexpectedly creates an empty C:\inetpub folder on systems without Internet Information Services installed, likely due to a bug that triggers IIS‑related components, and although harmless and removable, Microsoft has not yet commented on the cause.
This article compiles several Zhihu contributors' insights explaining why Linux dominates modern server environments, covering historical Windows dominance, IIS shortcomings, licensing costs, ecosystem advantages, container support, and the broader shift toward open‑source infrastructure.
Linux dominates modern server environments because its free, lightweight distributions and robust open‑source ecosystem outperform the costly, configuration‑heavy Windows/IIS stack, offering superior performance, native container support, and community‑driven innovation that overcame early Microsoft resistance and drove industry-wide adoption.
This article compiles several Zhihu answers that trace the historical shift from Windows/IIS to Linux-based servers, highlighting ecosystem dynamics, cost advantages, performance differences, container support, and open‑source adoption that together explain why Linux dominates modern server environments.
This article compiles multiple expert insights explaining why Linux dominates server environments, covering early Windows hosting limitations, ecosystem advantages, performance differences, cost factors, container support, and the evolution of Microsoft’s stance toward open source.
This guide walks through obtaining a free SSL certificate, exporting it as a PFX file, and configuring IIS with the appropriate server settings to enable HTTPS for a mini‑program, while highlighting common pitfalls and required client tools.
This step‑by‑step guide explains how to enable IIS on Windows 7, configure an FTP site, set authentication, permissions, virtual directories, ports, and launch the server so you can upload and download files over a LAN.
The article explains how a signed‑to‑unsigned integer overflow in IIS’s Read function bypasses size checks, leading to a zero‑length read that triggers the CVE‑2015‑1635 vulnerability in HTTP.sys, allowing attackers to crash the server with crafted Range requests.
This guide explains how to hide the index.php entry file of a ThinkPHP 5.1 application by configuring URL‑rewrite rules for Apache, IIS (including ISAPI_Rewrite and web.config), and Nginx, and also shows a fallback PHP modification when server changes are not possible.
Learn how to obtain a free one‑year Tencent SSL certificate, download and extract the appropriate IIS files, import the certificate via IIS Manager, and bind it to your website to enable HTTPS, all with step‑by‑step screenshots.
According to Netcraft’s January 2017 survey, the global number of active websites grew 1.1% year‑over‑year, with Apache retaining the top market share at 42.78%, Nginx climbing to 3.84% and overtaking IIS to capture 53.2% of all web‑server deployments.
This article explains how to set up a Windows development environment, enable Windows and Hyper‑V containers, create a Dockerfile for legacy .NET applications, build and run the container, and discusses practical considerations such as image size and deployment nuances.
This article explains reverse proxy concepts, introduces Nginx’s core features and architecture, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to set up Nginx on Windows as a reverse‑proxy and load‑balancer for IIS‑hosted ASP.NET sites, including service registration, configuration tuning, static‑file caching, and testing.
This article explains the principles of reverse proxy, introduces Nginx’s core features, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to set up a Windows‑based Nginx reverse‑proxy server that load‑balances two IIS‑hosted ASP.NET sites, including configuration, service registration, caching, and testing.
This guide explains why response headers like Server, X-Powered-By, and ASP.NET version fields expose critical information, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for disabling or deleting these headers in IIS using UrlScan, IIS Manager, web.config, and Global.asax modifications.
