[pyrophane]

I doubt you will fine anyone who does this today for reasons other than a needing to support legacy software that only runs on OS X for some reason.

All modern web application stacks run as well on Linux as they would on OS X, if not better, so there is no advantage to running OS X and lots of downsides.

You need to run OS X on Apple hardware, and they haven't made a blade server for several years, so you'd be stuck with either the mini or the Mac Pro, either of which is going to be expensive for the computing resources you get. You also can't fit them neatly into an enclosure.

Also, if you ever wanted to move your infrastructure to the cloud you'd need to move to Linux anyway.

I can think of no valid reason to use OS X server to host any kind of web app.

[stephenr]

> Also, if you ever wanted to move your infrastructure to the cloud you'd need to move to Linux anyway.

Not true, there are several Mac based hosting companies, offering a mix of physical and virtual servers.

[itomato]

Please name one cloud hosting provider who offers Mac OS X.

[stephenr]

http://xcloud.me

http://www.macminivault.com

https://www.macstadium.com

There are plenty more choices, those were just the first few I found.

[itomato]

This is just hosting.

[em3rgent0rdr]

Nothing says stuck with a Mac mini like "Mac Mini" Vault :P

[stephenr]

Before the last refresh, they could actually be quite powerful little servers with the i7 option.

I think a lot of people over-estimate the resources they will require (and either end up paying huge amounts for an over-provisioned service, OR end up locking themselves into an 'infinitely scalable' cloud provider that they never end up scaling.