In 2009, I started hosting this site on a Mac Mini colocated at MacMiniColo/MacStadium. While I had some experience with shared hosting (think cpanel and MediaTemple), most of my server experience at that point was with Microsoft IIS systems, which are largely GUI-based. I wasn’t familiar with Linux
In late 2009 I migrated all of my websites to my personal Mac Mini server, which is hosted in MacMiniColo’s data center (now part of MacStadium). You can read about my reasons for moving from hosted services to my own server here. I’ve never looked back, and have
Update 10/25/2011: I’ve discovered that Apple provides Lion-ready versions of the older server management tools via a separate download from Apple, called Server Admin Tools 10.7 (link no longer available). I have amended my post to reflect the capabilities of the Server Admin Tools 10.7
In my last post, I explained my frustration with web hosting services and how this frustration led me to purchase my own server. In this post, I will briefly touch on some of the ups and downs I’ve experienced with the Mac Mini Server and its Snow Leopard Server
Just a head’s up: this post is a bit of a rant. Had to get it off my chest. Musical Chairs I remember a few years back, probably 2002, my web hosting service went down for over a week at Christmas. Thankfully, I didn’t own any online retail/