OS X Server? Why the Hell Not?
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 8:45PM 
I’ve spent the last fifteen years as an IT professional. I was an IT manager for a Fortune 500 company for nine years and an independent consultant for the past six. I’ve spent too many late nights up to my ass in Windows, Novell and Linux server problems of every flavor to ever want a server in my home to care for, right? Well, no.
You see, that was my attitude a year ago. I still had a very bad taste in my mouth resulting from some bad experiences dealing with mission-critical servers while under pressure to make things right for a couple hundred users whose files, email, profiles, etc. all resided on said boxes. If the servers weren’t working properly, no one was working properly. I just got a shudder thinking about it.
Now, the word “server” has an entirely different connotation. Yes, I’m now working from home and the only users I have to deal with are my wife and daughter, so why would I need a server? It really comes down to only one thing, convenience. When I thought about it, I realized my home probably needs a robust network as much as most small businesses I deal with. In our household there are 3 Macs, 2 Windows and 1 Linux computer, 3 iPhones, 2 iPads, an iPod Touch and a Nexus 7 Android tablet. Out of 13 devices, 9 of them are made by Apple.
