Space on a Mac Virtual Machine (VM) in a data center.There are actually several different “flavors” of colocation: Better security (usually with guards, biometric entry to the data center, and data security appliances on the incoming Internet) and fire protection.Customer support from macOS Server experts.Unlimited Internet bandwidth at the remote data center.Some of the advantages of colocation include: To me and my clients at the time, it was as if the servers were sitting right next to me, and I could use screen sharing and Terminal commands to perform tasks. Between 20, I had a number of “headless” Mac mini servers with which I ran a podcast hosting service, and those servers were 750 miles away from my office. If you’ve already built a server and just want it in a more secure location than your own office or home, there are plenty of companies that can take your server and place it at their facility. (Mac minis and SAN storage at a Macstadium data center.
That location can be local, regional, or even international I personally know of several Mac-based businesses that are based in Europe but use colocation services in the US. What that means is that someone else can set up and maintain a macOS Server for you at another location, usually a secured data center. The first alternative we’ll talk about here is using Mac server colocation. Part 4: Setting Up File Sharing and Wikis.Part 3: Router Configuration and Open Directory.In case you’ve missed them, the previous posts in this series include: In this last post, I’ll discuss two alternatives that can provide nearly equivalent services but without some of the issues that can make server setup and maintenance a hassle. What you may have discovered during the series is that there are a lot of decisions to be made and hidden costs to setting up and maintaining your own server. This is the final in a series of articles about macOS Server and how to set up the many services it can provide for small to medium-sized workgroups.
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