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I'm surprised that they are actually offering mac minis as a hosting service. Is there any reason to use one instead of a linux box running the same software on
by statictype 17y ago
I'm surprised that they are actually offering mac minis as a hosting service. Is there any reason to use one instead of a linux box running the same software on superior hardware for the same cost?
- icefox 17y agoIdentical, small, and easily replaceable hardware for years on end?
- delackner 17y agoCocoa + Quicktime provide very powerful APIs for video/audio processing. I don't know of any legally clean way to say, encode AAC files and provide them to your users without paying a royalty rate. You could just have the server run a script that passes it through Quicktime Pro.
- cmelbye 17y agoA Linux box running a hacked up version of Mac OS X would not be better than a Mac mini natively running Mac OS X, in my opinion.
- jessedhillon 17y ago"A linux box running a hacked up version of Mac OS X" is a contradiction. It runs either one or the other, I think the OP was noting that the same price can get you much better hardware if you are willing to ditch the Mac, which is true. In this case though, they are offering to serve an OS X desktop environment, not just web sites, so there's one thing that can't be done (well) on Linux.