A good OS X hosting company?

[michaelsanford]

I am looking for a web hosting company that uses Mac OS X. Does anyone know of any (good) ones? I'm looking for a virtual server, not a dedicated machine (I have no money )

I like to support Mac use, so I'd like to go with Mac over unix if I can, but I also need the flexibility and control of a unix-style environment. I used to administer a few WebSTAR 4 servers--god I wish 10.1 had come out a little earlier...




BTW I used to work for Virtualis (now hosting.com) if anyone's heard of them...

 

[chemistry_geek]

Try Apple with .Mac, that should work pretty well.

http://www.apple.com/

 

[michaelsanford]

hah yeah got that already but I need a top-level domain, MySQL and some other stuff .Mac doesn't offer...

 

[BlingBling 3k12]

Here's one I know of, but I guarantee that there are many others out there...

http://www.xrackhosting.com/

 

[michaelsanford]

BlingBling thanks man!
I'll keep my eyes open for others but they look none-too-shabby.

PS congrats on switching

 

[Captain Code]

XRackHosting looks great. I'm switching to them in the next quarter from Itsamac.

Itsamac isn't very competitive with their space & transfer, while XRackHosting is very competitive, and also supports Quicktime streaming included in all packages!

Best of all, they are using XServes

 

[michaelsanford]

Yeah they do look pretty sweet.

One general question, (I'm not using Jaguar yet): on (http://www.xrackhosting.com/machine.php?pid=shared_hosting) they say that they offer "iChat support", what does that mean? Does iChat work like MSN or IRC (does it require a server to relay messages or it is p2p)?

 

[Captain Code]

iChat works like MSN, but it uses the AOL instant messaging network (AIM). If you don't have Jaguar yet, you could download AIM and it will work with people using iChat.