Just a home user. Win10 with IIS 7.5 I think it is.

I have always used IIS to check my web sites as I build them locally before I upload them to their host machines.

Recently for the first time I looked at viewing my own machines from outside, from the web, when away on holiday, that kind of thing. And letting family and friends view things without having to upload them.

And the first thing I run into is strong warnings that IIS only allows 10 concurrent connections and that ' a connection ' is in fact any call on the IIS at all - so one person connecting could be making http requests for many things, it seems, and each one called ' a connection' and you could find connections limited to one person in fact!

Astounding. I'm told MS did this to stop it being used as a server. But hell that's what it is supposed to be isn't it?

So maybe I've got it all wrong.

And maybe Nginx is just the same.

Or something.

Can anyone clarify the matter for me?

regards,

ab