Overview of Upgrading an IIS Server to IIS 6.0 The advantages of upgrading the server that hosts your existing IIS Web sites and applications to IIS 6.0 include the following:
The disadvantages of upgrading the server that hosts your existing IIS Web sites and applications to IIS 6.0 include the following:
After upgrading a server to Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0, the server runs in IIS 5.0 isolation mode, which allows IIS 6.0 to emulate the memory and request processing model in IIS 5.0. However, to take advantage of the security and performance benefits of IIS 6.0, you need to configure the server to run in worker process isolation mode, which is the new IIS 6.0 memory and request processing model. When upgrading existing IIS Web sites is not the best solution for your existing server, consider migrating your IIS Web sites to a newly installed server running IIS 6.0. For information about migrating your existing IIS Web sites to IIS 6.0, see Migrating IIS Web Sites to IIS 6.0 . |