I have to second Steve's question here. I myself am looking to
transition my hosting company to total MacOS X based systems and I
simply cannot accept the future headache of constantly having to
rebuild mailboxes and such - seems like utter silliness to me. I've
never had to do this with my linux/bsd servers - why start now,
right? Is this problem THAT prevalent?
Have you been using Cyrus on these linux boxen? The issue of
rebuilding mailboxes is mainly a Cyrus issue. Cyrus is ideally suited
to managing large numbers of IMAP mailboxes, but the expense of this
is the database that it uses to keep from reading all the maildir
files.
The main attraction to moving to MacOS X as a host OS is the ease of
OS updates and the great hardware. But if this comes at a cost of
availability and uptime, I simply cannot make that move. What are
the other hosting companies using MacOS X out there doing? Are you
having to roll your own solutions, bypassing the built-in server
admin and update features? What are your experiences here? Note,
I'm talking about pure webhosting/email/ftp/dns - no fileserver
functionalities.
OS X Server is not targeted to ISPs or mass hosting. It's targeted to
SMBs and organizations looking to manage workgroups of users.
This doesn't mean it's not a good platform for mass hosting, just
that the OS X Server features really don't fit. For mass hosting you
typically use the same techniques and component software you would on
any other class box.
And much of this revolves around what features you need to support
for your hosted clients. If your goal is managed hosting, OS X Server
may fit just fine. If your goal is unmanaged hosting, where clients
get a control panel and manage everything themselves, then OS X
Server is a waste, and OS X is a better platform.
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-dhan
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