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Comment by Hendrikto | Hacker News Reader

Easy solution: Don‘t use Macs as servers, they are completely the wrong tool for the job.

> Nowadays, I purchase iMac18,2’s to realize it has no thunderbolt2

Another tip: Read up on the hardware you are buying. I can‘t believe this guy... buys hardware seemingly without even looking at the specs and then complains.

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I build Linux servers, and the problem lies with the MacOS SMB client. It sucks so bad you gasp for air when in the same room, seriously. See my other comment: same hardware, running MacOS: SMB 150 MB/s, AFP 1GB/s (yeah, that's more than 6 times faster). Same hardware running Windows on SMB: 900 MB/s. All from the same server and same disk share, of course.

Apple sold these Macs as servers ... I even had one that was a 1U rack-mount unit. Businesses (unless you're a hosting service) generally depreciate server hardware on at least a 5-year schedule so it's no surprise to me that these are still in the field. It would be very interesting to know exactly how many are still out there running!

You are absolutely right. Apple quit the Server buisness when they killed the Xserve, and relying on Macs as servers is really a bad idea given their support interval for macOS. Seems the author is very angry that his next server cannot be a fancy Apple device.

>fancy

You don't need this part. Per the article, it is a brand the author knows and has used reliably in the past, and has some knowledge of - you don't need to belittle his choices as fanboyism.

I'm easing into it :-)

I'd suggest looking at a replacement solution around an open filesystem. Then, even if the world moves on to other technologies, you still have the source you can update or even hire someone to maintain.

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