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Fair disclosure: I administered and developed for IIS fairly heavily in the first decade of my career - not so much by choice, but when you're the star engineer of a three-man contracting firm, you take the jobs that come and learn how to do them on the fly, or else you end up looking for work because your boss went out of business. He didn't, not while I was there, so I guess I must've been good enough at it.

I'm perfectly willing to confide IIS is a fair bit faster, more reliable, and better to work with these days than it was in those - but that's a hell of a long way from imagining it's anything like good.

(Also, a pedant's unrelated note, because I've seen a lot of this in particular lately and I'm going to say something about it somewhere: "hove" is an archaic past tense of "heave", as in the related nautical phrase "heave to," as might be found in a commerce raider's injunction to "heave to and prepare to receive boarders". So something properly is said to heave over the horizon; only after it has done so may it rightly be said to have hove.)