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Been running OS X Server on a Mac Mini for the last couple of years. Doing this on a static-IP fiber home address, and it runs a full email server on multiple
by mozumder 10y ago
Been running OS X Server on a Mac Mini for the last couple of years. Doing this on a static-IP fiber home address, and it runs a full email server on multiple domains, and has been working beautifully. Set-it-and-forget-it.
Used to run a web server on it as well, but now I have a much faster separate Skylake Xeon FreeBSD machine behind the router/firewall, with terabytes of image data. I can server Django pages in about 350us, from home.
Every web developer should have a home static IP address and OS X server. It's just so much better than Gmail or cloud providers. OS X Server has so many services available in it, including file sharing, messaging, and VPN, and the Server GUI is so much easier to manage than any other Unix system. I expect the services offered by it to grow over time (family photo sharing maybe?)
Edit: Also, OS X Server isn't anything at all like the Linux/Unix home servers that people are complaining about. You're not supposed to tinker with it at all or learn about the intricacies of PostFix or SMTP or spam filters or VMs or containers. All of it's details are hidden from you - it literally has an 'ON/OFF' button for each service. It's not a hobbyist thing at all. It really is a Zero-knowledge 'set-it-and-forget-it' system. If you are spending more than an evening on it, then you have already screwed up, and might as well stop using it.
- sudhirj 10y agoThat's what the Clintons thought as well, but that didn't work out too well for them.
- yardie 10y agoThey hired a contractor to move the servers to a colo. He was very bad at his job.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoBut she was still running her own ser... nevermind. I'm so fed up with the two candidates we get to pick from I can't hate either enough.
- solatic 10y ago> separate Skylake Xeon FreeBSD machine Wait, if OS X Server is so awesome, why not run your web server on it? > much faster Oh. Oh, I see. Is the Mac Pro not fast enough? Because then you could run OS X Server to do your web serving.
- tinus_hn 10y ago>> Been running OS X Server on a Mac Mini for the last couple of years. >> much faster > Oh. Oh, I see. Is the Mac Pro not fast enough? Actually, no, you don't see. You're just too much caught up in the anti-Apple circlejerk to see.
- tkxxx7 10y agoIt's a Mini.
- lsadam0 10y agoBut why would I want to pay a premium for two workstation GPUs that I do not need _at all_ in a server?
- JustSomeNobody 10y ago> Every web developer should have a home static IP address and OS X server. ... OS X Server has so many services available in it, including file sharing, messaging, and VPN... Or a linux server running VMs and containers for all the same. > ... and the Server GUI is so much easier to manage than any other Unix system. Ummmm... that's a personal preference. I much prefer CL as I find it many times more productive.
- josho 10y agoYes, CL is more productive for frequent tasks that you remember the interface for. But, the OP's point was that you set the server and forget it. If you don't manage servers for a living then tweaking postfix config files is far slower than flipping the 6 toggles in OSX server. If you already know how to tweak postfix, et al then OSX server probably isn't for you.
- jonstewart 10y agoSo, is there any way with OS X Server to aggregate and backup photos from iOS devices?
- josho 10y agoAs I understand their marketing page, yes, sort of. The caching server will make local access to your cloud photos faster. But, first the photos have to go through iCloud, so despite having a server with lots of storage running 24x7 you still need to pay apple for iCloud storage. Sigh.
- jonstewart 10y agoBoo. I want my own iCloud for my family photos. Caching is nice and all, but it would be much nicer to maintain control.
- rikkus 10y agoI used to have a home static IP address and run OpenBSD. I used mail whitelisting because otherwise spam was a pain. It was still a pain, though, because I'd have to work out where I might get mail from to pre-whitelist it. So I went for Gmail with my own domain. No more spam, no more hassles dealing with span. And for running my own services? File sharing: Dropbox. VPN: Nothing to VPN to. What's better about running your own? I just got sick of managing it. OpenBSD, Debian, whatever I used, just broke in new and exciting ways every time I applied updates, meaning I had to spend time managing stuff that I could just hand off to others - and get for free/cheap. It's great learning by managing your own server[s], but after so long doing it, I wouldn't want to continue without being paid to.
- iamatworknow 10y ago>Every web developer should have a home static IP address DynamicDNS works just as well, and without the extra charge/phone call to your ISP.