Just an amazing article by Oleg Borisov about how to create a home Mac server on your own. Most of all, I admire the author's approach, his attention to detail. For example, Oleg, for a number of reasons (which he himself tells about), decided to place the server on a floor platform. Accordingly, it is necessary to solve the security issue. It was done brilliantly.
Creating a home server is a fascinating thing and not so difficult. Of course, having no skills in soldering, electronics, software, it is more difficult to do the described. The purpose of the article is to show how important the idea that you bring to the end is. It is very important to do everything as it was intended and not to let go of blots and mistakes, but to correct and do everything all over again until a positive result is achieved.
Some people said to me, “Why did you need to make a Mac-based server? Based on a PC, it would be much cheaper!”. Perhaps it is. However, it is not speculative that the PC system unit would be five times cheaper than the PowerMac G4. And then, what can a PC offer? FTP? Windows Sharing? Fire me. A Mac—based server is a special love <...>
The server is working and working properly. <...> It took me three months to create it.
Even if you don't work with Apple computers, I still recommend the article, it's very interesting.
