<story><title>160 Mac Minis, One Rack</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanctgardner2</author><text>It&apos;s very cool, but is anyone actually tied to OS X as a server platform? Couldn&apos;t they move to FreeBSD and save a ton of money in an application like this? I&apos;m wondering if there&apos;s a real business case for this, or it&apos;s just a fun hack.&lt;p&gt;edit: I guess lumped into this is the small market that seems to exist for colocated Mac Minis. Is there something about them that is better than renting commodity x64 hardware?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hugs</author><text>&amp;#62; anyone actually tied to OS X as a server platform?&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you make software that runs on OS X (or iOS and you want to test on iOS Simulators) you need OS X machines for your build and test process. You need lots of machines so you and your fellow developers can run speed things up and run tests in parallel.</text></comment>
<story><title>160 Mac Minis, One Rack</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanctgardner2</author><text>It&apos;s very cool, but is anyone actually tied to OS X as a server platform? Couldn&apos;t they move to FreeBSD and save a ton of money in an application like this? I&apos;m wondering if there&apos;s a real business case for this, or it&apos;s just a fun hack.&lt;p&gt;edit: I guess lumped into this is the small market that seems to exist for colocated Mac Minis. Is there something about them that is better than renting commodity x64 hardware?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nbpoole</author><text>First idea that comes to mind: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3837043/best-practice-for-setting-up-an-automated-build-server-for-iphone-apps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3837043/best-practice-for...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>