HACKER Q&A
📣 dwrodri

Has anyone used an M1 Mac Mini as a server and liked it?


Has anyone used an M1 Mac Mini as a server and liked it?


  👤 not_me_ever Accepted Answer ✓
After replacing the whole server zoo in the last company with M1 Minis I am now slowly going through all my servers, and the servers I set up for friends & family, and replace them with M2 Minis.

- Trivial to set up, and run. - Super low power consumption. - No noise. - Dirt cheap.


👤 toast0
MacOS is a terrible server OS if you're exposing TCP services to the public. FreeBSD's tcp stack is great, but not the one Apple picked from the late 90s before they added syncache/syncookies and never rebased.

👤 mattl
Use one as a file server at home and it works great.