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Depending on the price, it could be a reasonable option for people who want a place to do some porting or qa work on OSX but otherwise do most their development
by bayareaguy 18y ago
Depending on the price, it could be a reasonable option for people who want a place to do some porting or qa work on OSX but otherwise do most their development on some other platform.
- wmf 18y agoThis service will probably be over $100/month; for development purposes a Mac mini would probably be a better option.
- bayareaguy 18y agoTheir website says During the Private Beta period we intend on splitting the server in 1/8th partitions. Each virtual machine will be guaranteed 2GB of memory and two cores of CPU resources. That sounds close to a small ec2 instance 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform So if you have to pay by the month a Mac mini could be better, but if you pay by the hour I could see using one for an hour or so a day as a build slave.
- rcoder 18y agoUnlike an EC2 instance, though, these are going to be running on expensive, single-vendor hardware, and won't be able to take advantage of much higher-density blade configurations to decrease space, power, and cooling requirements. There's also the matter of a non-trivial per-image OS license cost from Apple. In other words, expect to pay a premium even over what you would for a normal full-time VPS, and don't count on hourly billing.