What's the best way to deploy an executable process on a web server?

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The original question:

The title of this question might be a bit clumsily phrased, but here\'s the situation:

I have a .NET web project deployed on my server.

Answer 1

Here's a nasty thought. If you're admin.exe isn't doing anything too hard core, why not throw into IIS? To write a C# Web Service, you probably won't need to change much.

To ensure it gets called repeatedly, you could use any variety of methods, like Windows Scheduler to run wget once a minute. Keep concurrent copies from running with a file lock, should it ever take MORE than one minute to complete.

This would make your deployment as simple as a file copy (FTP). I don't even think you need to reboot IIS when pushing a C# DLL. If you do, you can script that up over SSH.