Looking for MacOS based servers

fluffernutter

@dyren said:

What's your budget?

for hourly its 0.40$/h max, for monthly its 30$ max.

https://secure.cyberlynk.net/cart.php?a=add&pid=677

https://secure.cyberlynk.net/cart.php?a=add&pid=700

your budget is too low. These are the only real options within your price range.

alexhost

@dyren said:

@alexhost said:
Hello.

We have that currently available, check that here:
https://alexhost.com/dedicated-servers/apple-m1-dedicated-servers/

Anything just open a ticket support and we will be glad to help you.

Alexhost

Looking for hourly billing only (or anything that isnt a full month, daily for eg.).

@wii747 said:
https://www.scaleway.com/en/mac-mini-m2-pro/

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I'm not looking for hosts which requires any type of ID identification. I wanted to give Scaleway a try but after I deployed a service they sent me an email asking for ID verification and locked my account, including the service, so now that service is running for 24 hours until my account gets deleted.

Hi,

We don't offer hourly billing, to many risks. We don't ask for ID identification if you pay through crypto.

If you want to test the dedicated server you can contact us we have money back policy for dedicated servers.

Alexhost

dyren

Thanks for everyone's suggestion, i'll check them out more thoroughly and i'll see what will be the best for me. If there would be any other hosts from the ones previously mentioned (with a possibly cheaper pricing lol) i would be happy to give it a look.

niranjan

AWS

dyren

@niranjan said:
AWS

no f*cking way. im not touching that company again. respectfully.

ehhthing

@techdragon said:

@ehhthing said:

@fluffernutter said:

@raindog308 said:

@fluffernutter said: Apple prohibits anything under a day.

Do you have a citation for that?

3. Leasing for Permitted Developer Services.
   A. Leasing. You may lease or sublease a validly licensed version of the Apple Software in its entirety to
   an individual or organization (each, a “Lessee”) provided that all of the following conditions are met:
   (i) the leased Apple Software must be used for the sole purpose of providing Permitted
   Developer Services and each Lessee must review and agree to be bound by the terms of this
   License;
   (ii) each lease period must be for a minimum period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours;
   (iii) during the lease period, the End User Lessee must have sole and exclusive use and control
   of the Apple Software and the Apple-branded hardware on which it is installed, except that you,
   as the party leasing the Apple Software (“Lessor”), may provide administrative support for the
   Apple Software; and
   (iv) prior to using the Apple Software, the End User Lessee must review and agree to be bound
   by the terms applicable to any software preinstalled on the Apple Software, including, but not
   limited to Apple’s Xcode developer software and any other Apple or third-party software.

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSSonoma.pdf

it's in their TOS.

I don't think this is really true or enforced for a lot of use cases. Github Actions has MacOS runners, which are entirely ephemeral and thus would technically violate the ToS.

But are these runners licensed to the end user or GitHub Actions?

If they're licensed to Github Action, then they are implicitly sublicensed to the end user if the end user is using the VM.

raindog308

No idea if this company is any good...I believe they're @LightNode here.

https://go.lightnode.com/macos-vps

At 1.2 cents an hour ($7.41/month), it has that "too good to be true" funk pretty strong.
I'm guessing they're running the github posted above, not presenting genuine apple hardware.

Here's another for $24.99/month. Never heard of them.

https://www.hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting

Well, that's enough "macos hourly vps" googling.

techdragon

@ehhthing said:

@techdragon said:

@ehhthing said:

@fluffernutter said:

@raindog308 said:

@fluffernutter said: Apple prohibits anything under a day.

Do you have a citation for that?

3. Leasing for Permitted Developer Services.
   A. Leasing. You may lease or sublease a validly licensed version of the Apple Software in its entirety to
   an individual or organization (each, a “Lessee”) provided that all of the following conditions are met:
   (i) the leased Apple Software must be used for the sole purpose of providing Permitted
   Developer Services and each Lessee must review and agree to be bound by the terms of this
   License;
   (ii) each lease period must be for a minimum period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours;
   (iii) during the lease period, the End User Lessee must have sole and exclusive use and control
   of the Apple Software and the Apple-branded hardware on which it is installed, except that you,
   as the party leasing the Apple Software (“Lessor”), may provide administrative support for the
   Apple Software; and
   (iv) prior to using the Apple Software, the End User Lessee must review and agree to be bound
   by the terms applicable to any software preinstalled on the Apple Software, including, but not
   limited to Apple’s Xcode developer software and any other Apple or third-party software.

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSSonoma.pdf

it's in their TOS.

I don't think this is really true or enforced for a lot of use cases. Github Actions has MacOS runners, which are entirely ephemeral and thus would technically violate the ToS.

But are these runners licensed to the end user or GitHub Actions?

If they're licensed to Github Action, then they are implicitly sublicensed to the end user if the end user is using the VM.

So, GitHub.

A sublicense is a license granted by a licensee that grants some or all of the rights (as to a patent) acquired under the original license.

fluffernutter

@raindog308 said:
No idea if this company is any good...I believe they're @LightNode here.

https://go.lightnode.com/macos-vps

At 1.2 cents an hour ($7.41/month), it has that "too good to be true" funk pretty strong.
I'm guessing they're running the github posted above, not presenting genuine apple hardware.

to my knowledge, lightnode is an actual cloud provider so I'd assume they're just spinning up VMs on an Intel Mac Pro (which is the way to do it according to Apple TOS). it's possible they also just don't give a shit about the licensing terms tho

Noct

@raindog308 said:
Here's another for $24.99/month. Never heard of them.

https://www.hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting

I personally have used this provider, and found them to be good. They earned my endorsement.

GSBRT

Maybe https://www.greenmini.nl/ fits your needs. They don't provide hourly billing, but do fit your price point although with a longer commitment.

Hotmarer

Necro ...

eb1995

@dyren said:
Hi y'all,

As the title says, I'm looking for MacOS based servers. It can be any type of server as long as it runs on MacOS and I can install Steam games on it and download mods from sites. Why, you may ask? Just for fun and testing compatibility for mods.

My main billing requirement would be 1€ or less hourly, or the cheapest it can be monthly. I'm not looking for hosts which requires any type of ID identification. I wanted to give Scaleway a try but after I deployed a service they sent me an email asking for ID verification and locked my account, including the service, so now that service is running for 24 hours until my account gets deleted.

I don’t know if it is available in your country but recently there are services where you can rent a Mac. In the uk there’s a company called Raylo or something.

You could also buy a second hand Mac with the intention of reselling it after use.

I’ve just never seen any providers supplying Mac on here or heard of any. It’s like no one cares about them because Apple are dhit now.

Pjottertjah

Hey, I can offer you a dedicated server with Proxmox or VPS running on Proxmox. A dedicated GPU would be possible. This might be interesting regarding the DockerOSX article mentioned above.
All servers are located in The Netherlands. Send me a DM for more info

dyren

Thanks everyone for the new offers, but i'm no longer looking for a server.

MukulW

@dyren said:
Thanks everyone for the new offers, but i'm no longer looking for a server.

So how did you manage? Just curious.

dyren

@MukulW said:

So how did you manage? Just curious.

i ended up not needing a server. a member from a community im in helped me out.

raindog308

@eb1995 said: I’ve just never seen any providers supplying Mac on here or heard of any. It’s like no one cares about them because Apple are dhit now.

It's almost like Apple doesn't make servers or any products for the enterprise or hosting markets...

eb1995

@raindog308 said:

@eb1995 said: I’ve just never seen any providers supplying Mac on here or heard of any. It’s like no one cares about them because Apple are dhit now.

It's almost like Apple doesn't make servers or any products for the enterprise or hosting markets...

Does make you wonder, doesn't it

e2bs2k1

You can use anything to build your apple software(even with hackintosh). It's not strictly enforced.
The only important point here is that you need a valid developer license to publish your application.

cainyxues

@raindog308 said:

@eb1995 said: I’ve just never seen any providers supplying Mac on here or heard of any. It’s like no one cares about them because Apple are dhit now.

It's almost like Apple doesn't make servers or any products for the enterprise or hosting markets...

Well there are just too much rules and regulations surrounding that something like only original macs must be used and before using the person has to keep the device on for atleast 24 hours and they even cost more so only developers use them that also mainly xcode devs but ig it's better for them instead to just but the device directly. Apple did make server edition of their mac pros but they were not too much successful [in their intel era ]

cainyxues

@e2bs2k1 said:
You can use anything to build your apple software(even with hackintosh). It's not strictly enforced.
The only important point here is that you need a valid developer license to publish your application.

yup