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Mac Servers Directory soon
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What Is A Mac Server
For those of you who don’t really understand where or how your web page is sitting on your hosting Mac Server, this is a basic over view of how it works.
A Mac Server is basically hardware and software and protocol. We will go over these three basics of your hosting Mac Server.
• Mac OS X Server hardware.
Mac Server hardware is so similar to your old PC hardware that the price of Mac Server hardware has come down considerably. Down enough that it’s tempting for a lot of us to host our own Mac Server. But that’s a whole different article. All a Mac Server is:
• Very fast processor.
• A large amount of RAM.
• A vast amount of Disk Space.
• Connection to a T1 line (access to the outside world).
The hardware is housed in very large office buildings. There are many racks of Mac Servers filling these climate controlled rooms. Most of the Mac Server host brag of their 99r better uptime. This is very impressive and another reason to use a Mac Server host. How often have you re-booted your PC in the past?
• Software. (Operating system)
There different operating systems on the market. Most likely the software on your Mac Server is running Apache on Linux, an open source product. Mac Servers need to be secured and an open source application is more likely to be less buggy and more secure then their larger competitor Microsoft.
These Mac Servers use an interface for you to access and configure them, a control panel. Some control panels are more complicated then others. Depending how technical you are, this is a point of concern when picking a Mac Server host.
• Protocol. (FTP)
To get your page on the Mac Server you need to FTP (file transfer protocol). FTP is a client (you) Mac Server application. If you created your page on your desk top, obviously to share it you would need to get it on your Mac Server. It’s also used to transfer files between your own pc to someone else’s computer.
This is a very simplistic overview of what a Mac Server host is, but I hope it will give you a basic idea how it works.
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