[FX.php List] Economical Mac Server setup

[Troy Meyers]

John,

This may only be worth 2 cents.

I like Mac Minis. Others may say they are unreliable, but I think that was an issue with the hard drive in early models, and I haven't experienced that at all, and they are so inexpensive new that a used machine is only a bit cheaper. For quite a while we used one Mini as the FM server, WPE, and Apache machine. We are currently using two of them, one as the FM server (advanced) and the other as the WPE+Apache. We doubled because our site is getting much more popular. Both are 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duos with 1 GB RAM. Neither have MacOS X Server -- nope, they are just consumer machines running Leopard. They work great. I've used them since FileMaker Server 8, but we are currently on 9, and are testing 10 on a spare.

-Troy

> I am setting up a economical fm/web server for my client.
> 
> I have been trying to get an old Dell Windows 2000 server set up for FM
> Server 8 advance and iis to host FM files and FX/PHP. Among some other
> headaches was the PHP install. I am not novice when it comes to PCs,
> servers, Macs etc. and this process was the most frustrating setup I
> have ever come across.
> 
> I gave up.
> 
> I am going to buy a used Mac to host Apache FX/ PHP and FMSA. I know
> there is a min configuration for FMSA but is there a min config for
> Apache / PHP on OSx? There will be only a hand full of users logged on 
> from FM Clients and 1 or 2 web clients.
> 
> Any 2 cents is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John Funk