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Ask HN: Has anyone used an M1 Mac Mini as a server and liked it?

• mattl 4y ago
  Use one as a file server at home and it works great.
• toast0 4y ago
  MacOS is a terrible server OS if you're exposing TCP services to the public. FreeBSD's tcp stack is great, but not the one Apple picked from the late 90s before they added syncache/syncookies and never rebased.
  • asdadsdad 4y ago
    You could put it behind cloudflare tunnel or something
  • hnchamber 4y ago
    > MacOS is a terrible server OS if you're exposing TCP services to the public. I wish you had listed at least one or a few technical reasons why that is the case. It's assertions like these which uninformed people then go around parroting in unrelated contexts, in the hopes of gaining HN points because someone with 18k odd HN points made this statement, so surely it must be true. This is how all the "experts have said ..." information gets born.
    • toast0 4y ago
      It has no syncookies or syncache, as I alluded to. It is super trivial to synflood a mac that listens on tcp port. The port of pf has a synfilter, but that doesn't work for traffic to the host, it might work for forwarded traffic, but not for the host itself.
      • hnchamber 4y ago
        Thank you for adding this detail.
      • mattl 4y ago
        It reads like they added it. I thought Apple rebased at some point but maybe that was when NeXT merged with Apple.
        • toast0 4y ago
          They did, but they is FreeBSD there. Pronoun confusion, I'll work on it.
          • mattl 4y ago
            Aha!
    • brutusurp 4y ago
      ty
• not_me_ever 4y ago
  After replacing the whole server zoo in the last company with M1 Minis I am now slowly going through all my servers, and the servers I set up for friends & family, and replace them with M2 Minis. - Trivial to set up, and run. - Super low power consumption. - No noise. - Dirt cheap.