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Anybody have any experience/thoughts of using Mac OS Hosting solution for developing iPhone apps. I see GoDaddy have an interesting offering http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/mac-hosting.aspx. The basic package is $99/month but that supports up to 10 users.

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Permalink Reply by Alexey Rashevskiy on May 3, 2010 at 11:49pm

Sorry John, not really sure what kind of server do you want?
Why do you need OS X hosting for apps development? Can you specify bit more detailed your requirements (source control/wiki/bugtracker/iCal/etc...)?

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Permalink Reply by John O'Reilly on May 4, 2010 at 7:45am

Hi Alexey,

The idea would be that this solution could be used by people who don't have Mac Books. You can remote desktop on to the XServe server and run XCode from there.

-John

Alexey Rashevskiy said:

Sorry John, not really sure what kind of server do you want?
Why do you need OS X hosting for apps development? Can you specify bit more detailed your requirements (source control/wiki/bugtracker/iCal/etc...)?

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Permalink Reply by Alexey Rashevskiy on May 4, 2010 at 10:44am

Hmm, sorry, never had experience with this type of hosting...

How many user at the same time will work on this server?

Dedicated Mac Mini hosting could be an option if it isn't too many users (but cloud from GoDaddy looks better).
Another solution - just to buy 1 or few mac minis (probably server edition) and use colocation option (or just set it in you office).
Not sure how many users can work with comfort on one Mac Mini via remote desktop...

Here some prices for Minis dedicated/colocation:
http://iweb.com/dedicated/mac/
http://www.xservhosting.com/mac-mini-colocation/mac-mini-colocation...

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Permalink Reply by Alexey Rashevskiy on May 4, 2010 at 5:20pm

Never worked before on MacOS using VNC, but read several very bad reviews about latency even in local networks.

Probably "solution" will be develop code locally in favorite text editor, load sources to the MacOS server, compile and debug them?
But IMHO it will be easier to buy Minis to developers and use them. They aren't so expensive and your developers already have monitors to plug.

Adam McCarthy said:

I agree with John. I used to have a MacminiColo and if you weren't using a decent connection it was useless. I would imagine every other solution involving a vnc or screen sharing connection would suffer from the same latency issues.