Do I need to dedicate a computer such as a Mini to set up a server? Or can I use my iMac as my server for my 2 man company?
I was considering using my iMac for the server. Can I us it as my main computer as well as the server?
Jim
As cpragman writes, more information helps tailor the answer.
As for the question posed, iMac will work just fine as a server and I know folks that use that, but a central consideration of any "repurposing" of a workstation for this is that servers deal with more than one person and usually with continuous access and comparatively few outages. This for server-oriented services such as mail, DNS, Messages, web services, etc. A workstation can boot and crash and be reconfigured or wiped and reloaded maybe not at a whim, but the workstation outages basically disrupt just one user. Server outages can cause headaches for multiple users and uses.
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Run
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