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		equalarrow on Dec 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 160 Mac Minis, One Rack This is exactly what we did. I bought a mini, replaced the hd with a 128gb SSD and then maxed the ram out at 16gb and installed CentOS on it. The machine works great and if we start getting a lot of traffic, I'll just get another one and move postgres off onto that. At some point if the need arises, I'd love to look into getting a thunderbolt nas for the db storage. That would be fun.

wolfhumble on Dec 10, 2012 [–]

From my reading on the subject I am not sure if the current Linux kernel will support a thunderbolt NAS.

That and the lack of ecc memory is what currently holds me away from buying mac minis for hosting.

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