Do I have to set web farm for multiple web sites in the same IIS server?

Question

I have multiple web sites hosted in the same IIS 8.5.

The web sites names are same but different ports or http/https. For example,

1. http://www.mydemosite.com (using default port 80)
2. https://www.mydemosite.com (using default port 443)
3. http://www.mydemosite.com:5000 (using non-standard port 5000)
4. https://www.mydemosite.com:5001 (using non-standard port 5001)

All of them are in the IIS server, is that okay or a good idea or messed up? I have redirect requirements from http to https, say 1 to 2 and 3 to 4.

Answer 1

It is perfectly fine to run multiple sites on a single IIS server. I've seen servers hosting several hundred sites.

It all comes down to how busy your sites are, how many requests the server hardware can handle.

A web farm, using multiple servers for a single web site usually only used to high load sites or for redundancy.

Using different ports is a bit uncommon these days, you just use different host names instead.