- #MAC OS ALTERNATIVE HOW TO#
- #MAC OS ALTERNATIVE INSTALL#
- #MAC OS ALTERNATIVE PRO#
- #MAC OS ALTERNATIVE SERIES#
- #MAC OS ALTERNATIVE MAC#
If you’re looking at a small workgroup and don’t care if your various services (email, calendar, contacts, etc…) have a private domain associated with them that highlights your company name, then using something like Apple’s iCloud service could be a good solution.Įach employee on your team will have email, cloud storage of documents, calendar, contacts, reminders, and notes synced to the cloud.
#MAC OS ALTERNATIVE SERIES#
Now, perhaps one question has been going through your mind as you’ve read this complete series - couldn’t I just use cloud-based services from a number of sources as an alternative to hosting my own server? The answer is a qualified “Yes”.
#MAC OS ALTERNATIVE INSTALL#
If you or your IT department don’t feel comfortable configuring the server, find a colocation service that can not only install and set up macOS Server, but all of the services you wish to have available as well. Note that the true “I’ll send my server to your datacenter” services often require that you set up your own macOS Server, then ship it to them.
#MAC OS ALTERNATIVE MAC#
Finally, Mac Mini World’s datacenter in northeast Ohio has a staff that’s very familiar with macOS and macOS Server, and can provide everything from a home for your Mac mini server to those VMs running on Macs I mentioned earlier. Just want your Mac server in a data center? Colocation America has eight data centers around the USA and will gladly host the Mac mini server you’ve set up.
#MAC OS ALTERNATIVE PRO#
In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, you can colocate one of your Mac mini or Mac Pro servers with Green Mini Host, or rent one. The company can also provide dedicated Mac Pros if you need a bit more power for your offsite server. The company apparently also looking at opening a fourth data center in Southeast Asia soon.Īnother provider is Mac Mini Vault, with Mac data centers in Milwaukee, WI and Phoenix, AZ. The company recently merged with MacStadium, which means that there are now three data centers jam-packed with Macs around the world - in Las Vegas, NV Atlanta, GA and Dublin, Ireland. Who are the big providers in the Mac colocation world? For quite a few years, it has been Macminicolo, a company that basically came up with the idea of hosting racks of thousands of Mac minis. Space on a Mac Virtual Machine (VM) in a data center.There are actually several different “flavors” of colocation: Better security (usually with guards, biometric entry to the data center, and data security appliances on the incoming Internet) and fire protection.Customer support from macOS Server experts.Unlimited Internet bandwidth at the remote data center.Some of the advantages of colocation include: To me and my clients at the time, it was as if the servers were sitting right next to me, and I could use screen sharing and Terminal commands to perform tasks. Between 20, I had a number of “headless” Mac mini servers with which I ran a podcast hosting service, and those servers were 750 miles away from my office. If you’ve already built a server and just want it in a more secure location than your own office or home, there are plenty of companies that can take your server and place it at their facility. (Mac minis and SAN storage at a Macstadium data center. That location can be local, regional, or even international I personally know of several Mac-based businesses that are based in Europe but use colocation services in the US. What that means is that someone else can set up and maintain a macOS Server for you at another location, usually a secured data center. The first alternative we’ll talk about here is using Mac server colocation.
#MAC OS ALTERNATIVE HOW TO#
This is the final in a series of articles about macOS Server and how to set up the many services it can provide for small to medium-sized workgroups.
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