OSX server?

[ridemonkey]

Server loads/costs have become a big problem. I am considering moving my server in house.

Does anyone here have OSX server experience? I don't think that I could get a more powerful machine than a dual processor Mac. Do they run PHP and MySQL with the same efficiency as a Linux server?

Any insights would be helpful.


BTW XP sucks and I'm sick of being a Microsoft clone!

[Jake Bunce]

my friend runs phpnuke, phpBB and vBulletin on his 450MHz G3 with OS X. they run very fast but he doesn't have hardly any traffic so i don't know about capacity.

[jgrillone]

phpbb

I run my phpbb forum on my mac OSX
i installed portgesql and it flys
never could get mysql to work though

G4 dual 1ghz

[yetdog111]

We serve up our SHN downloads from a Mac OSX server and its crashed 4 times in the last day. Right now we are waiting for the admin to get into his office to reboot the beast. We have a feeling it has to do w/ child processes spawned by apache - either way, we're going to reduce the number of them. Hopefully keep this thing on its feet for longer than an hour. Damn mac

Matt