TommyWillB
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That other "Mac Mini as a server ?" thread has veered too far away from my finite questions... so I'd like to try again by focusing on some very specific questions (hopefully avoiding tangents, etc.):
Background:
1) I use my mac for a personal Internet-facing web site that
. a) get's less than 100 hits a day. (Correction 100 "page views".)
. b) is a glorified photo album (<2GB of images so far)
. c) uses some basic PHP scripting & header/footer includes
. d) has mimimal Apache conf tweaks (mostly play/learning related)
2) My current Mac is an 867mhz QuickSilver G4 w/ a firewire LaCie external 200GB drive.
My Requirements:
1) I want to move my Apache web site off my G4, and onto it's own mini-like (or cube-like) thing. (Apple Mac OS X... not Wintel, Linux nor some other 'nix.)
. a) I will not move any of my other day to day computer usage onto this machine.
. b) I would operate this machine headless and access the machine via Apple File Sharing + SSH
2) My biggest complaint is that the G4 + drives are too loud @ night when we are sleeping in the next room... so I want near silence!
3) I keep this computer on 24/7 in a closed bedroom (to keep the kities away), so I need something that will keep cool... quietly.
4) Most of the hits to my site are from modem-based family mebers... My mac is connected to the Internet via DSL connection w/ 782mb(k?) download and 512mb (k?) upload. (Obviously the "up" is the important part for web serving.)
My Questions:
1) How quiet is the mini... really!
(I can never judge this in the Apple store because there are billion people there!)
2) Considering I'm just talking about running the OS + Apache what are the chances of VM swapping if there is only 256MB of RAM? ... vs. upgrading to 512MB? i.e. should I waste money on the extral 256MB?
(My current httpd is only taking about 25MB of RAM, but I can't quite fiure out how to calculate what OS X is taking.)
3) Will heat really be an issue when used for such a lightweight purpose? even in a closed bedroom?
4) As long as I'm not going to hit VM much, I'm thinking the slow drive speed is not a real issue... Right?
(For comparison, how fast were the drives on the old cube's?)
(I'm not worried about actually filling up 40GB... so I didn't ask any questions about that...)
5) What other issues should I seriously consider before buying this?
Background:
1) I use my mac for a personal Internet-facing web site that
. a) get's less than 100 hits a day. (Correction 100 "page views".)
. b) is a glorified photo album (<2GB of images so far)
. c) uses some basic PHP scripting & header/footer includes
. d) has mimimal Apache conf tweaks (mostly play/learning related)
2) My current Mac is an 867mhz QuickSilver G4 w/ a firewire LaCie external 200GB drive.
My Requirements:
1) I want to move my Apache web site off my G4, and onto it's own mini-like (or cube-like) thing. (Apple Mac OS X... not Wintel, Linux nor some other 'nix.)
. a) I will not move any of my other day to day computer usage onto this machine.
. b) I would operate this machine headless and access the machine via Apple File Sharing + SSH
2) My biggest complaint is that the G4 + drives are too loud @ night when we are sleeping in the next room... so I want near silence!
3) I keep this computer on 24/7 in a closed bedroom (to keep the kities away), so I need something that will keep cool... quietly.
4) Most of the hits to my site are from modem-based family mebers... My mac is connected to the Internet via DSL connection w/ 782mb(k?) download and 512mb (k?) upload. (Obviously the "up" is the important part for web serving.)
My Questions:
1) How quiet is the mini... really!
(I can never judge this in the Apple store because there are billion people there!)
2) Considering I'm just talking about running the OS + Apache what are the chances of VM swapping if there is only 256MB of RAM? ... vs. upgrading to 512MB? i.e. should I waste money on the extral 256MB?
(My current httpd is only taking about 25MB of RAM, but I can't quite fiure out how to calculate what OS X is taking.)
3) Will heat really be an issue when used for such a lightweight purpose? even in a closed bedroom?
4) As long as I'm not going to hit VM much, I'm thinking the slow drive speed is not a real issue... Right?
(For comparison, how fast were the drives on the old cube's?)
(I'm not worried about actually filling up 40GB... so I didn't ask any questions about that...)
5) What other issues should I seriously consider before buying this?