# Difference between Standalone and Service

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-standalone-and-service/40714>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [August 1, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-standalone-and-service/40714 "2013-08-01T11:57:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Gulshan\_Budhiraja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Gulshan\_Budhiraja](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gulshan_Budhiraja)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-standalone-and-service/40714/1 "2013-08-01T11:57:33Z")

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Wanted to know the difference between Wowza Standalone and Service. What advantage one have over each other

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:49am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-standalone-and-service/40714/2 "2013-08-01T07:49:43Z")

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Running Wowza as a service keeps Wowza running(even if the user is logged out) and re-starts when the server is rebooted.

Stand-alone is for testing, where as service is for production.

Salvadore