[X4U] OSX servers and experience

[Simon Forster]

I run some light weight hosting on a variety of Mac OS X machines  
(none on OS X server) and all works fine. I have a number of clients  
using OS X server on Xserves - one of whom apparently gets more DNS  
lookups for his domain name than the rest of the .org name space put  
together. Sounds good but I don't know how this translates into raw  
stats. This same client runs email hosting on OS X and Communigate  
Pro - but only for a few hundred users. I think he works on the same  
premise as you - namely that the kit may be a touch more expensive  
but he can manage the whole process himself.

Not clear cut but perhaps shows that there's mileage in this thought.

HTH

Simon

On 26 Oct 2005, at 13:07, Kansas Territory wrote:

> Just curious if there is anyone on this list..  using MacOSX  
> servers in a web hosting environment ?
> using say Apache, Mysql, maybe Postgresql and PHP.   And also web  
> servers.
> and if so how many users ?
>
> for the past 10 years or so I had an ISP with about 10,000 users,  
> all servers running Linux based Intel systems.
>
> for the email servers, we had a pretty intense set of servers, mail  
> was stored on some kind of disk raid system,  but damn if it's not  
> having a hard time keeping up these days what with all the spam  
> that comes through on a regular basis.
>
> I was just curious if anyone was running anything close to this  
> amount of users running OSX servers, and how their maintenance  
> compared to Linux and/or Windoze based servers.
>
> bottom line.. looking to start up a new business, not concentrating  
> so much on access, so I don't think we'll ever get back up to  
> 10,000 customers with email accounts etc..   But I'm thinking of  
> going with OSX servers (could maybe save myself some money from not  
> having to hire some HIGH PAID linux guru)
>
> And info or suggestions would be appreciated.  or a point in a  
> right direction where I could read more about people's experience  
> with OSX servers compared to other platforms.
>
> Kansast