Can a $99 second-gen Apple TV operate under heavy load as a web server? With the death of the venerable XServ line, one hosting company is going to try to find out.
Over at Mac Mini Vault, a Chicago data center that uses Mac Minis to host client websites, they’re testing to see how well a jailbroken second-gen AppleTV running lighttpd handles traffic and CPU load.
Right now, it’s just a test, but if the AppleTV does well enough, we could be looking at something pretty wonderful.
To help the guys over at MacMiniVault out, click on this page. That leads to a website hosted on the jailbroken ATV. To test, they need to throw as many simultaneous users as possible at the machine, so please help them out. A $99 Apple web server might just be in reach!
[via MacStories]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
20 responses to “Help Slam This Web Server To Find Out If The $99 Apple TV Can Replace An XServ”
That link just takes me to their homepage – is that correct?
I’d like to see Apple TV operate as a full IOS device. Perhaps with a bluetooth Touchpad and keyboard we could have apps running on our big screens for just $99!
Nop… the correct link (which is hosted on the AppleTV) is http://atv.macminivault.com/
Did the lack of it being for sale make you forget how to spell XServe? :P
I just clicked on that link… it’s taking forever to load. Looks like it might time out. I guess the AppleTV as a web server is all that it’s cracked up to be. :)
dog slow. 30 seconds to load for me.
Hmm… clicked on it. Loaded just about instantly.
The A4 is alright. Will be more practical if the ATV ever gets the A5, although it’ll be a long time until it’d be jailbroken.
60 + seconds and still waiting….
over a minute load time at the moment for me at work in Melbourne, Australia
well over a minute at 10.30 gmt.
Xserve. But it’s Brownlee so I’m rather surprised this is the only thing he got wrong.