KestrelHttpServer

[Archived] A cross platform web server for ASP.NET Core. Project moved to https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore

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[Archived] A cross platform web server for ASP.NET Core. Project moved to https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore

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2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	9	2	7
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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jongalloway2·Nov 18, 2015

It's confusing, but ASP.NET 5 ships with ASP.NET MVC 6. ASP.NET MVC 5 was released in October, 2013. I'm assuming you meant ASP.NET 5 / ASP.NET MVC 6 since that's what was announced today. There's a good chance you know this, but since some people reading this thread might not I figured I'd give some more detail. It's definitely in Microsoft's interest to make Azure a great place to host your ASP.NET applications. The team that builds ASP.NET is part of the Azure group, and that's what pays the bills. (disclaimer: Microsoft employee, Azure fan) However, ASP.NET 5 has been built to run great on your own web server. In addition to IIS on Windows, ASP.NET 5 has a cross platform, open source web server named Kestrel that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux: https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer/ The team's working really hard to make sure th

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at ASP.NET 5 not only runs cross platform, but that it works well and runs really fast cross-platform: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/blob/master/README.md

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