i want to make a restful service that will be consumed over the local area network (LAN) by winforms apps. can i run such a service as stand alone in windows 7 , 8 or 10 without the need for windows server and IIS ?
if yes what are the caveats ? who will take care of the app process in case it crashed ? ...etc
i.e. why people buy windows server to run such an app?