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Gilles Dassac
Gilles Dassac

Reputation: 31

servicestack app host vs iis for high performance REST service

as servicestack leave it open to host service in web server or in stand alone app.

What is the best in term of performance both raw and for a high number of clients ?

Hosting on apache or nginx or XSP or IIS is just for added functionality or for perf ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1592

Answers (2)

justmara
justmara

Reputation: 240

We've ran into same question while were choosing hosting schema for our ServiceStack services. Ran some benchmarks with same service hosted on self-host and under IIS. SelfHost windows service has shown near 1.5x better performance than IIS-hosted app. Surely this is not and absolute number and it may vary by service's load type (cpu/io), but it is clear, that IIS routine adds tonns of overhead.

If you need speed and don't worry about all those features IIS can give you (monitoring / advanced routing / admin / etc)- self host is the way to go. Our set-up hides ServiceStack hosts behind nginx nodes that serve all the routing/proxy/balancing stuff so we don`t need monstrous IIS-routine.

Upvotes: 2

mythz
mythz

Reputation: 143359

servicestack.net itself runs on Ubuntu / Nginx + MonoFastCGI, although we've been notified others have been able to get better performance with self-hosting which you can still serve behind a Nginx/Apache reverse proxy if you still wanted access to a full-featured web server.

You can also wrap a self-hosted ServiceStack in a Linux Daemon.

Upvotes: 2

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