Can I host an ASP.NET webite outside of IIS?

Question

I need to write an ASP.NET application which must handle a very large number of transactions per second - as many as 5000 users may transact at the same time. I think I will use WCF in back to communicate with SQL server. But in front, can IIS handle 5000 users at the same time effectively, or is there any simple way to host my application outside of IIS?

Answer 1

It will depend on the characteristics of the machine but you could always setup a web farm to handle high loads.