OS X is a great desktop and thing just work out of the box. Setting up OS X as a web server is doable but the experience is a lot like trying to setup Linux /

OS X is a great desktop and thing just work out of the box. Setting up OS X as a web server is doable but the experience is a lot like trying to setup Linux / BSD as a desktop, you can do it but really it is not the main focus of the system. I worked at a place where we hosted a site off OS X servers using all the same software that would run on a Linux/BSD box. In fact, I was not allowed to use Linux for some systems so I had to build a lot of servers on OS X. Yes you can do it, and it is actually a great learning experience because you have to figure out how things work rather than just follow tutorials, but fact of the matter is that being a server is not the main focus of OS X.