: Mac Mini Colocation Usage Case I'm looking at purchasing colocation services for a Mac Mini with A specialist colocation company - but as of yet I have no experience with OSX Server for hosting

@Welton855

Why use a macmini server ? When you could probably run it in the cloud - aws, rackspace ect for around £20 a month.

Although in the long run you'll save money it will take you almost 18 months to break even (if bought at the uk price of £850). Baring in mind cash flow, setup and maintenance, a simple cloud server looks much more appealing.

For instance for £22 you can get 512mb ram, 20gb storage, and 100gb traffic, with something like 10p for each addition gig of storage or data per month.

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@Pope3001725

You can use Wordpress on Mac OSX there are many different ways of doing that via apps like MAMP or xampp or even use the native OSX, MAMP is probably the simplest to use when creating virtual hosts for your 80 or so domains.

I am not using mamp or xampp. As for <1000 you will be fine you can use 10s of 1000s of connection per hour on a mac with a good upload i.e 50mpbs to 100mbps. Genrally most hosts have a connection of 10 to 30mbps. however that should be more than enough band with with an i5 and 16GB ram.

I am running a Mac Mini to do just that with Hosting Mac Mini but they are Australian (Sydney) based, you also have option of Mac Mini Colo in the US.

If you don't expect to see have a lot of storage use a 64GB or 128Gb SSD as that will really make a diffrence in perfromace of your mac

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@Jessie594

I do not have experience with mac mini in particular but, from what I can tell...

I have been using cloud servers with 512MB of ram and very low cpu throughput, and a single machine has been able to easily handle around 1000 concurrent connections with lighttpd+fastcgi+mongodb server softwares running, and all of that with a 5-10% CPU usage; can't remember the memory used but I'm pretty sure it was very low.

Problem you might face is installing this software on macOS, otherwise the machine specs would be more than enough for WP websites.

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