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OS X as a server
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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How capable is OS X (not OS X server) as a server?
What type of server you ask, as a web server or an sendmail server, etc.
Thanks heaps!
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Its a unix based operating system -- which most would agree is ideal for serving. More specifically it comes configured with Apache so it would probably pretty much be ideal. There are probably some fine points that can be argued for other *nix OS's regarding security or whatnot, but you really have a pretty good server OS in X i would say.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Augusta, GA
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It's VERY capable. (How's that for a vague answer?  )
For specifics, you can't beat the tutorials found at O'Reilly.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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I set up an FTP server on my Cube in about 10 minutes flat. You can serve web pages out of your home folder with about 3 mouse clicks. Setting up a DNS server is a good bit more involved, but it's all there in Apache.
Of course I'm technically violating my RoadRunner service agreement by even having Apache on my computer, so check with your internet provider. Static IP's are better, but there's workarounds for dynamic IP's.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Great State of Texas
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I have a iMac 333 that I have run 10.1.x on for several years as a server. I have a small web design business and I do some hosting for my clients. I used this iMac as my main web server serving about 35 domains and doing DNS as well. I ran Tenon's iTools to control all the server functions (which I would not recommend to anyone, WAY too buggy and sorry support.) Until I moved to a datacenter last month my iMac had uptime of 165 days with no problems. It served about 60,000 hits a day and never crashed or froze once in the two years I ran 10.
Id say OSX is very capable as a server platform!
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