Dedicated hosting on Mac mini's

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Dedicated hosting on Mac mini's

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Wow my host is sooo coool 8)

Just spotted they started offering true dedicated hosting on Mac Mini systems... pretty cheap as far a dedicated hosting goes too. Might give it a go :)

http://mythic-beasts.com/macmini.html
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thats cool. I have a old imac that i could use for my home server, i tried installing xampp to get the whole deal but i couldnt get the myphp started. I think its because i got 405 webservers installed on my computer because i installed every webserver program i could find for mac.

any one on here have their own webserver running on a mac?
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£125 a month? You call this cheap? My provider lends servers for $80/month. And as long as you stick with some simple rules, you don't pay anything for your traffic. And if you have your own tower/u1 server, you pay $60/month. http://www.infobox.ru/ . It's Russian, though.
Wow my host is sooo coool
What are the advantages of using mac mini over a standard server?
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Its actually a good idea, but not for the price.
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Gambler wrote:£125 a month? You call this cheap? My provider lends servers for $80/month. And as long as you stick with some simple rules, you don't pay anything for your traffic. And if you have your own tower/u1 server, you pay $60/month. http://www.infobox.ru/ . It's Russian, though.
Wow my host is sooo coool
What are the advantages of using mac mini over a standard server?
*cough* £125 a month? Where's that? £125 a quarter.

And what do you define as a "standard server" ? What specs do you get for $80 a month? (Which is actually more expensive than this).
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According to them they have reduced prices because space is not as bit as an issue compared to the conventional size of other servers rackspace..
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Post by redmonkey »

Much as I'm a fan of Macs, this seems to me to be nothing more than a gimmick.

Hardware wise, for similar costs you could have a 2Ghz Dual processor, expansion to 2Gb RAM, SATA IDE connectivity and 1G LAN in a miniITX form factor, seems a no brainer to me.

Full sized Macs make excellent workhorse servers, I have 3 that haven't been turned off/power cycled/rebooted for (approx.) 2.5 years and they work hard most days, but a MiniMac as a server? hmm... could do better (IMHO).

I'm not so sure their prices are so cheap/competative either, but then I haven't looked around that much lately with regard dedicated hosting so could be wrong, I'm sure at one point 1and1 were offering better packages (on the surface at least) for similar costs.
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Post by m3mn0n »

Gambler wrote:
Wow my host is sooo coool
What are the advantages of using mac mini over a standard server?
As mentioned on the site, they seem to prefer mac mini over traditional hardware because it saves them money.

And it does that by providing customers an inferior hardware setup (performance wise).

Personally, I'd prefer a server "over-specified for the average web hosting application" than one that is under-specified. ;) That way, you'd have plenty of room to expand site usage without major setbacks and overall performance is better at any level of site usage.
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Post by Gambler »

*cough* £125 a month? Where's that? £125 a quarter.
Ok, I missed that. This is quite cheap... for England.
What specs do you get for $80 a month?
Celeron 2,66/512 Mb/80 Gb.

They used to give you server for free if you sign up for a year of colocation ($60/month) program, but they don't do it anymore. Now they sell such servers for $390.
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