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title: "What are the advantages of hosting WCF Services in IIS as compared to self-hosting?"  
description: "What are the advantages of hosting WCF Services in IIS as compared to self-hosting?"  
author: "Amit Singh"  
published: 2011-03-17  
updated: 2020-09-18  
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category: "wcf"  
tags: ["wcf"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are the advantages of hosting WCF Services in IIS as compared to self-hosting?

There are two main advantage:\

1. Automatic Activation
2. Process Recycling\

## Answers

### Answer by Pankaj Singh

IIS provides Automatic activation that means service is not necessary to be in running and process recycling.

### Answer by Amit Singh

There are two main advantage:\

1. Automatic Activation
2. Process Recycling\


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