Why set up a Mac ISP? What are the pros and cons?
The biggest pro in my opinion is ease of use (which directly translates into time saved during setup and maintenance). I don’t know about other ISPs, but I’d much rather focus my time on giving the best customer support possible, instead of figuring out arcane UNIX commands (or trying to make NT work correctly). With Macs, I know that any problems can generally be fixed very quickly, allowing the servers to do their job, and me do my job. It is literally child’s play to anyone familiar with Internet serving (which is a different story altogether). Big pro #2 is cost. It’s been proven that Mac Web Servers have a huge price/performance advantage over any other server. Sure, maybe a Mac Web server can’t keep up with a big UNIX box, but you can buy 3 or 4 Macs and cluster them at a lower cost (and with much fewer headaches, not to mention better redundancy) than one UNIX box. Now while there haven’t been any studies showing that other Mac servers besides Web servers show equal value vs. UN
