Cool idea but a rather expensive way to go (if you consider hardware + colocation fee) compared with a VPS. Although the mac mini is dedicated its laptop parts

Cool idea but a rather expensive way to go (if you consider hardware + colocation fee) compared with a VPS. Although the mac mini is dedicated its laptop parts make it on par or worse than a good VPS performance-wise. Id be more inclined to use a mac mini as a server on a local network as opposed to colocating. Another interesting application is a cluster of mac minis-that a whole other area.