[FX.php List] Economical Mac Server setup

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Hmm, here is what my approach to MacMini for hosting would look like

8GB SSD internal, just to not have the heat from a spinning disk inside.
1.5TB Seagate Extreme external as boot disk

ggt667

2009/2/11 Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net>:
> Great stories Bob. All of this goes to demonstrate, as does Roger's post,
> that it's more about RAM and hard disks than raw processor power. I have
> recently resurrected a 466MHz G4 machine to run MySQL on for testing. It
> turns out to be a pretty nice testing platform for MySQL... and it's nine
> years old.
> Dale
>
> On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
> I can go that one farther!
> When I started hosting databases in 1998, I got an iMac for $300 from eBay;
> I put FileMaker 5 Unlimited on it, and used it along with 2 others for a
> RAIC (redundant array of inexpensive computers) for using FileMaker with
> CDML. For those of you who never dealt with CDML, you had to use FileMaker
> Unlimited, which was essentially an unlimited-user version of FileMaker Pro
> client, to talk to the web server.
> So anyway, I had 3 FM Unlimited machines for each of my 4 RAICs; I'm down to
> one RAIC now and only a half-dozen CDML sites, for clients who refuse to
> upgrade; that original iMac has been running 24/7 for almost 12 years now. I
> told these CDML clients that I wouldn't be upgrading hardware, and won't be,
> so that old iMac still sits in my server room doing its thing.
> One of the original CDML clients upgraded his site this year to XSLT, and
> swears that his original site, running on CDML through FileMaker 5 Unlimited
> and OS 9 (if you can believe it), is faster than his new site running with
> PHP.
> So that machine is a testament to old long-outdated hardware still running
> great and keeping up with state-of-the-art server hardware.
> Bob Patin
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> On Feb 11, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Roger Moffat wrote:
>
> I've got 22 databases that total about 1.8 million records, including one
> database of over 800,000 records all running on an eMac that has a 700 MHz
> G4 chip in it - it's working splendidly for me here http://data.wmgs.org/
>
> and then click any of the Search buttons - the first one goes to the largest
> database. Yes, they're simple databases of only a few fields and nothing
> very complicated, but the eMac has served well for nearly 2 years now. And
> it replaced a PowerMac 7500 that ran FileMaker Pro 6 Unlimited for about 7
> years prior to that (FileMaker 4 before that I think it was).
>
> The eMac does the database part of the 2 machine setup, and my Mac Pro 2 x
> quad core 2.8 GHz does the Apache part of it. The LAN is 100 MBit between
> the machines.
>
> Old Mac hardware never dies - it just goes into my basement to become a
> FileMaker Server machine :-)
>
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