Timeline for why was my question about mac mini servers closed?
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| Nov 23, 2010 at 15:16 | comment | added | GregD | You've never supported a non-profit I take it? | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 15:12 | comment | added | paleozogt | mac mini servers: apple.com/macmini/server | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 14:53 | comment | added | Mutahir | @gwaldo +1 for overpowered servers! Mac Mini are great product for Small Business, new companies or even LABs, I have seen people using mac mini for windows server (native) and or with OSX Server. plus it can go upto 8GB RAM now :-) so it can be a good machine !!! not to forget the backup technologies like BESR 2010 with which you can keep an image all the time in-case it goes down and restore it to another box right away ! | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 13:52 | comment | added | gWaldo | Further, Apple doesn't provide a rack-mount server any longer. They have a guide to transitioning to the new choices (Mac Pro or Mac Mini), and are very explicit about the loads that you can expect to put on a Mini. How many grossly overpowered servers do you have in your datacenter? How many who barely trip over 10-15% (and that's usually at startup?!) Look at your LDAP or Web Servers... Now take a SMB, and the cost restraints that they have. I'm the first to say that server hardware has it's place (HP Proliant certified, after all), but the Mini fills a need as well. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 13:45 | comment | added | gWaldo | I must respectfully disagree, John. A server is a computer that provides a service. And while I've considered myself an IT Professional for years, there have been few instances when I had hardware purchasing decision-making. Not to mention a new gig and you have to support the existing environment. (Read: Somebody else's decisions.) A professional may gripe about how their predecessor was a clueless moron, but he still does the support. Yes, that includes Macs and Mac Minis. | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 2:42 | history | answered | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |