Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by jlawer on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:15PM
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OS X Server is really a shell of the former product. It used to be a great small business / design studio server, but it has lost most of its use-case and I really question its use outside of a few Apple Device Management scenarios.
Almost all the documentation and best case expects Macs to be tied to an Active Directory / MS environment for management.
As a typical Web / LAMP host, OS X really is not that performant. Unix tools execute faster on a RHEL/CentOS box then an OS X (even if the OS X box has higher specs). MySQL is particularly bad if it hasn't been tuned, and most of the literature seems to indicate that OS X (or more specifically MACH) doesn't have the level of optimisation for server workloads.
That being said, if your using the OS X frameworks, there can be some great value with exceptional performance (just look at the startup using Mac Pros as image manipulation servers).
Almost all the documentation and best case expects Macs to be tied to an Active Directory / MS environment for management.
As a typical Web / LAMP host, OS X really is not that performant. Unix tools execute faster on a RHEL/CentOS box then an OS X (even if the OS X box has higher specs). MySQL is particularly bad if it hasn't been tuned, and most of the literature seems to indicate that OS X (or more specifically MACH) doesn't have the level of optimisation for server workloads.
That being said, if your using the OS X frameworks, there can be some great value with exceptional performance (just look at the startup using Mac Pros as image manipulation servers).