30 April 2007
We’re Back… With Shiny Brand New Apple Servers
Okay, so last week was pretty hectic for us. We spent the end of the week and some of the weekend moving everything over to our brand new servers (except our blog, which is still hosted by Media Temple). So what are we running on you ask… a MAMP stack? Wait, there’s a typo there isn’t there? Nope, we’re using Macintosh Apache MySQL and PHP. Let me tell you, it’s pretty awesome. The servers we’re using are:
Dual Core 1.88 GHZ Macintosh minis with 2 GB Ram. We’ve also lightened the load on OS X and done some custom configs. (ie- no iphoto and that junk).
Why are they awesome? They’re cheap enough, easy to swap (I can go to a mac store and within 20 minutes have a new server), energy efficient, and when we really start buying a lot of them we can fit WAY more than 42 of them in a cabinet. Oh, and they run on OS X, which makes administration really cool. Here’s a screen-shot of what everything looks like. The screen shot below is what I see when operating the server remotely… it’s OS X:
So let me explain everything:
- We’re using Remote Desktop 3 to connect. It’s amazing.
- CocoaMySQL for database administration. Cocoa MySQL is a grat application
- FTPd for FTP stuff. David set that up, not sure
- Textmate for code and config editing
- Super Duper for backups
- Safari for checking pages,etc.
- Terminal, console, etc.
- We’ve also kept quick access to our config, confd, and ini files.
- We made it look nice with the Publictivity logo there.
So in short, that’s what we’re using for our servers. Let me know if you try the same.
Expect a new landing page, blog look, and alpha test to come in the next couple of weeks.
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