I saw Mac 360 on Digg this week in the Apple section. That usually means a lot of hits to a web site. How did the Mac hold up under the onslaught from Geekdom?

Funny you should ask…

We’ve never had more traffic to Mac360 than this week. Regular readers may remember that we moved the site from a PowerMac G5 which maxed bandwidth from time to time, to a Mac Xserve at ServerLogistics. From what we can tell, traffic tripled over daily averages this week and the Xserve never skipped a beat. The new Xserves with the dual Xeons are screamers. One day the traffic was four times daily norms.

FWIW - I don’t remember the source, but came across a site with benchmarks for all of Apple’s Macs over the past three or four years. Guess what? A Mac mini with Intel inside, for most applications, runs as well as the early model PowerMac G5s with dual CPUs.

Those minis are suprisingly powerful for their diminutive size.  Nice to see the server didn’t skip a beat...I wonder how it would hold up to the slashdot effect.