Mac Minis used for Load Balancing a Website
Tue, 06/02/2009 - 10:29
This web site shows how useful Mac Minis are for server duty. The Mac Mini has been extremely versatile, from people having them installed into cars for web browsing, to being used as a server running websites (which I've done before with a 2005 G4 Mini).
At relatively low cost, the Mac Mini is easily one of my favorites. Even though the lineup has switched to Core 2 Duos today, my G4 Mini is still running strong today with no problems.
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In terms of power consumption, no matter how hard I tried I could not make that Mini use more than 0.37A of power. I blasted that thing with multiple concurrent CPU and disk bound processes, getting really heavy loads and disk read/writes.
In terms of CPU, when we ran a battery of tests to really try and emulate this customers environment which is a very complex PHP web application. It really shone and had tremendous performance, even under load.
