Hosting WCFServices in a WindowsService

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I've made a WCF Service to connect to a database and authenticate users, then I was thinking of how to host my service and IIS wasn't a good candidate in my opinion cause my service is going to be consumed by a small local network, so I figured it out to host my service on a windows service running on the server,so my question is if this pratice brings bad results related to performance or any other parameter?,this is the code for my windows service:

public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase
{
    private ServiceHost _host;
    public Service1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {
        _host = new ServiceHost(typeof(Cosmos.Service.Service1));
        var binding = new WSHttpBinding();
        _host.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof (IService1), binding, "http://localhost:4444");
        _host.Open();
    }
    protected override void OnStop()
    {
        _host.Close();
    }
    protected override void OnContinue()
    {
        _host.Open();
    }
    protected override void OnPause()
    {
        _host.Close();
    }
}

There's nothing wrong with hosting in a Windows Service or anywhere else. — John Saunders, Feb 14 '12 at 14:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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As Daniel says, there is nothing wrong with self hosting compared to hosting in IIS. See this question for more discussion: IIS WCF service hosting vs Windows Service

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Sep 05 '12 at 08:34

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