Does anyone know of any other Mac-oriented web sites that are running on a Mac? Mac360 is hosted on an Xserve which runs OS X Tiger Server, not Leopard. Most Mac-oriented web sites that I know of are running on Linux machines.

I am a moderator on another blog/forum site called Applemacpunk or the forums page.  We also do a biweekly podcast.  The blog stie and forums are hosted on Xserves.  AMP has had some coding issues that he is trying to get resolved so it doesn’t look as good as it used to, but its fun to be a part of the forums and podcast.

I think it would be nice to have those Podcasts inline, too, right on the web page. I find that sometimes I don’t want to go to the trouble to download, move to iTunes, move to iPod. I just want to click and listen.

That is a really good suggestion.  I will see what I can do.

BunsenHoneydew - 21 April 2008 03:59 PM

I am a moderator on another blog/forum site called Applemacpunk or the forums page.  We also do a biweekly podcast.  The blog stie and forums are hosted on Xserves.  AMP has had some coding issues that he is trying to get resolved so it doesn’t look as good as it used to, but its fun to be a part of the forums and podcast.

I’ve been to that site. Decent. In a ‘punk’ sorta way. Isn’t it strange that there are so many, many sites about Apple and Mac but so few of them actually run on Macs?

It is a work in progress, especially since the original site went down and had to be rebuilt.  It is interesting, but fact is most servers are linux so most sites are hosted on linux, not macos or windows.  Funny thing is the ones that are on macs seems to be very stable and fast.  I think there just aren’t that many providers that employ mac hosting.

Kate’s new site, PixoBebo, and our joint venture, NoodleMac, are on Pair, which runs, if I remember correctly, FreeBSD. I manage a lot of sites on Linux, some on FreeBSD, a few on Macs, none on Windows. FreeBSD is more dependable than Linux, which seems, from my experience, to be more dependable than OS X Server (I’ve used Panther and Tiger Server, not Leopard). That said, none of them are as easy to get up and running and maintain as OS X Server.

I was able to put together an 8 node cluster Xserves by myself from boxes to a fully provisioned cluster in less than 8 hours.  I was amazed.  The vast majority of that time was putting together the big iron too, not the provisioning.  I suppose you could make and argument that since FreeBSD is the basis for OSX that its sort of like using OSX without the eyecandy.

BunsenHoneydew - 08 May 2008 02:29 PM

I was able to put together an 8 node cluster Xserves by myself from boxes to a fully provisioned cluster in less than 8 hours.  I was amazed.  The vast majority of that time was putting together the big iron too, not the provisioning.  I suppose you could make and argument that since FreeBSD is the basis for OSX that its sort of like using OSX without the eyecandy.

Whew! That sounds like work, but I’ll admit that setting up Tiger server was an absolute breeze. I only hit the PDFs to figure out some of how Apple implemented Postfix.

Mac360 runs on Tiger server, not Leopard. We may make a switch once ServerLogistics decides to upgrade (if). That’s one difference between Mac OS X and Linux. Linux can update the guts quite easily to new versions. Not so with OS X. It’s actually easier to set up a new Mac with OS X Server, then migrate.

No it really was a breeze.  the hardest part was finding the screwdriver.  Once I had hooked up all the big iron I connected an ipod with the cluster image and the ipod fully provisioned the cluster.  It really couldn’t have been easier.

FYI to those who follow this. Mac360 is still running on Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ Server, not Leopard.

Nothing wrong with that if it meets your needs.