Hey, I saw Mac 360 on DIGG!!
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Posted: 21 September 2007 12:02 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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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?

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Posted: 21 September 2007 12:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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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.

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Posted: 24 September 2007 03:51 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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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.

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Ah I see you have the machine that goes PING!

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