[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.