Did you know Apple used to sell rackmount servers?
In today's #MARCHintosh video, I restore an Xserve G5, and explore what made these machines tick—and some reasons why Apple stopped selling them: youtube.com/watch?v=kFnvZ4NWr0…
Apple used to make REAL servers (mine won't boot)
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in reply to Jeff Geerling • • •ugh I should’ve gotten you a fun pic of my old xserve table! It still exists, but is no longer serving websites. There was a time when I ran it as a real web host though, hooked up to a WiMAX T1 that was point-to-point broadcast from a dish on the Chrysler Building, straight to my favorite apartment I ever had in Brooklyn.
We let the Flickr account lapse but the direct links still work from 2011:
- flic.kr/p/962ABp
- flic.kr/p/962BcM
- flic.kr/p/965Cfq
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in reply to Jeff Geerling • • •definitely easier than this solution. My friend who designed the table for me knew someone who fabbed the (iirc) steel legs for us.
Best thing about this:
1) the glass acted as a heat sink, but ther was still a toasty spot for feet during the winter.
2) we only used three drive bays (single volume boot, raid 1 across two), so the 4th drawer was good for tv remotes! This was the G4 version though, not G5, which lost one of the bays.
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in reply to Jeff Geerling • • •We bought a handful of Xserve G4s to use in a colo and discovered they were too deep to physically fit in the racks, they ended up acting as the "desktops" of any developers who were willing to ignore the sound.
The colo ended up with a mix of HP DL360s running Linux and 1u or 2u Alphaservers running Tru64.
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