IIS WCF service hosting vs Windows Service

Question

We developed a WCF service and we\'re looking to deploy it. Our clients will be using it with basicHttpBinding but our internal team will be using it with

Answer 1

There is no standard answer to this question. I disagree completely with the answer from Cheeso (Self-hosting of WCF is not a good idea).

Please check following links: (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730158.aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx) and think about your constrains:

• operative system
• expected performance
• available HW
• expected availability

and you will see that in many situations "self hosting" is the best alternative.