Mac Hosting Q&A: Advantages of Hosting on a Macintosh Server

Q: What are the advantages of hosting a website on a Macintosh Server?

A: Great Mac Software
Macintosh web software is easy to use and the learning curve isn’t steep.

Security
The Macintosh platform is more secure than any other platform. In test after test, hackers have been

specifically employed to crack into a Macintosh server; they have met with no success. Further, the very file system that Macintosh uses prevents a hacker from cracking the tree structure at all. Without that rather important piece of information, it is impossible for the hacker to get into the system and even begin to do damage. For example, in an effort to increase security, the US Army has switched from Windows NT to a Mac server

URL Case
On a Macintosh Server, unlike most other web servers, URLs are case insensitive. For example, if someone mistakenly types in a capital letter in a URL, a Mac server will still display the proper URL. ie the URL http://www.mydomainname/Mac.html and http://www.mydomainname.com/mac.html will both work on a Mac server regardless of whether users type in a capital M or not.

Mac Hosting Q&A: What is a Macintosh Server?

Q: What is a Macintosh Server?

A: A Macintosh Server is one that uses software from Apple. Macintosh servers can
pereform most tasks as well as any other Windows NT, Novell Netware or Linux server
uses server software from Apple. Apple’s latest Mac hosting software is a
Mac OS X server which incldes the Unix web server apache enabling the
use of PHP Perl and many other popular scripts.