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The news about the non-upgradable RAM is tough to swallow. About the only remotely positive spin I can put on it is that, relative to the 2012 Mac Mini, the "A
by JohnBooty 12y ago
The news about the non-upgradable RAM is tough to swallow.
About the only remotely positive spin I can put on it is that, relative to the 2012 Mac Mini, the "Apple tax" you pay for 16GB of RAM on the 2014 Mac Mini is somewhat offset by the reduction in the price of the base hardware.
The Mac Mini matters to me, because they make nice servers - companies like MacMiniColo and MacMiniVault will host your Mac Mini for $50 a month or less.
From a pure "computing horsepower per dollar" perspective, it's superior to virtual hosting - try hosting a 200GB database on a virtual host with 16GB of RAM and virtual CPUs anywhere near the performance of those in the Mac Mini. It gets real expensive real fast.
Obviously, virtual hosting has a boatload of other advantages, and it's the right solution for most situations. But Mac Mini hosting fills a niche for small companies with data < 1TB.
- MoOmer 12y agoFor $50/month you can get a Xeon E3 1225v2 with 32GB ram and 3-120GB ssds and 300mbps pipe nowadays.
- zaroth 12y agoI doubt that in the US you could get 1U, 300mbps unmetered, and 2amps for $50/mo. Forget about it if you throw in the hardware as well. Now if you said 1U, 1amp, and 10TB of metered bandwidth, then $50/mo sounds more like it. [1] - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131
- hadoukenio 12y agoLink?
- JohnBooty 12y agoThat's awesome - where?
- chx 12y agoMoOmer almost surely means http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/e3-ssd-2.xml http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/e3-ssd-2.xml this.
- monstermonster 12y agoThat's pretty damn cheap. What's the catch? If there isn't one, I'll take two! Cheaper than Azure!
- chx 12y agoThis is OVH. There's no catch AFAIK.
- monstermonster 12y agoOk that figures. Have dealt with OVH - never again!
- MoOmer 12y agoI use OVH, and have only great things to say.
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- monstermonster 12y agoThey make awful servers. Limited upgrade possibilities, tiny storage, poor airflow, not ECC RAM, no redundancy in network interfaces or power supplies, no remote console and you have to bastardise the things to get two disks in. You can do a lot better for $50/month without the initial up front cost of the machine!