When can I host IIS and SQL Server on the same machine?

Question

I\'ve read that it\'s unwise to install SQL Server and IIS on the same machine, but I haven\'t seen any evidence for that. Has anybody tried this, and if so, what were the r

Answer 1

It's possible, yes.

A good idea for a production environment, no.

The problem that you're going to run in to is that a SQL Server database under substantial load is, more than likely, going to be doing heavy disk I/O and have a large memory footprint. That combination is going to tie up the machine, and you're going to see a performance hit in IIS as it tries to serve up the pages.