I am a dotnet developer. I see ASP.NET MVC framework now started providing self-hosting feature. It makes a lot of sense (to me). A self-hosted application feels complete with no external dependency.

The question I have in my mind is now why would anyone NOT want to self host ? I mean, I are there any advantages that IIS will give me over self-hosting. I am sure there are some advantages because otherwise microsoft would not have bother creating IIS integration with asp.net core.

I don't want my question to be specific to dotnet. So, I am gonna go with- why go with why use IIS or apache tomcat instead of self-hosting ?

I am a .NET developer. I see ASP.NET MVC framework now started providing a self-hosting feature. It makes a lot of sense (to me). A self-hosted application feels complete with no external dependency.

The question I have in my mind is now why would anyone NOT want to self-host ? I mean, Are there any advantages that IIS will give me over self-hosting. I am sure there are some advantages because otherwise, Microsoft would not have bothered creating IIS integration with asp.net core.

I don't want my question to be specific to .NET. So, I am gonna go with- why go with why use IIS or apache tomcat instead of self-hosting ?