Wow on mac mini 2011 software#

ExceptвЂ¦ Apple in their wisdom decided to customize pretty much everything, which meant the aforementioned guides were often useless, causing endless headaches.

Wow on mac mini 2011 software#

The software? No so much.ДЄppleвЂ™s Server.app is a compilation of open-source software, which sounds great - plenty of people use the same software and there are literally thousands of how-to guides on the interwebs. Through it all, the Mini (and MacMiniColoвЂ™s hosting) has been solid.

Server.app handled the heavy lifting and made it easy for a lightweight like me to get a simple site up and running.ДЄlmost exactly eight years later, IвЂ™ve replaced the hardware once (a newer, faster Mini), have updated macOS seven times, and replaced Server.app six or seven times. I had previously dabbled in Linux server administration via hosted services and Microsoft IIS at my workplace, but itвЂ™s safe to say I was still a n00b. When I first got the server, I was new to Linux and was really happy Apple provided Server.app, which is a GUI for the standard fare of services, including Apache, mail, FTP, VPN, and certificate management. IвЂ™ve never looked back, and have mostly enjoyed having my own server because of the freedom it gives me to experiment and customize my environment.

You can read about my reasons for moving from hosted services to my own server here. In late 2009 I migrated all of my websites to my personal Mac Mini server, which is hosted in MacMiniColoвЂ™s data center (now part of MacStadium).