Comments on: Old Apples never get rotten – instead they run the Web

By: Carol LeBlanc » Old Macs Still Serve

Carol LeBlanc » Old Macs Still Serve — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:42:18 +0000

[...] Via Pingdom “Old Apples never get rotten – instead they run the Web November 30, 2007Apple and the Macintosh computers have a loyal following dating back long before the first iPod ever hit the streets. There are millions of old Macs in circulation, and as would be expected in these days of the internet and tinkering enthusiasts, some of them have ended up as web servers. An old Mac obviously never gets useless.” Full story at Pingdom [...]

By: TN

TN — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:35:54 +0000

http://www.haddockdot.co.uk seems to be hosted at 1&1 ( see http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haddockdot.co.uk ). However, after a quick look, I found some image urls with an ip ( http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2F77.99.212.164 )

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:47:29 +0000

I have a beige G3 working as web server since 1997, running with Suse Linux and I only reboot it for upgrades!!
I also had a Quadra 700 with MkLinux for a while but I needed the IP-number for a newer machine. The machine is still working!

By: The LCIII owner :-)

The LCIII owner :-) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:13:24 +0000

Well, thank you for the publicity! I wondered where I had so many hits…

By: En Mac från från 1988 som webserver? Javisst! | gunnar.se

En Mac från från 1988 som webserver? Javisst! | gunnar.se — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:35:42 +0000

[...] Pingdom.com har en skön genomgång över gammla macar som snurrar som webbservrar ute på nätet. Själv har jag kört en Power Mac G4 som server som fick stå på en hylla hos Roger. Minns att jag fick mejla lite då och då och be dem starta om den, men annars funkade det ganska ok. [...]

By: DynDNS SE/30

DynDNS SE/30 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:50:59 +0000

No problem here, the SE/30 is much stronger than a 540c !

By: davethewave

davethewave — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:25:38 +0000

we use to had a mac lcII with linux installed for serving simple html pages through Apache 1.3
it worked very well… bye DaVe

By: Scott Baret

Scott Baret — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:01:05 +0000

There used to be a server running on a Mac Plus that was up on the web, I don’t think it’s around anymore though. The Plus was made from 1986-1990.

These are all great accomplishments…while more and more websites are requiring the latest plugins and browsers these do fine on early 1990s hardware!

By: Booto

Booto — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:01:16 +0000

It’a so cool~

By: 540c Server

540c Server — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:22:02 +0000

Ahem!
You do realise that all this publicity is bringing down all these underpowered webservers?

I have had to reboot 4 times in the last two hours. With all these digs i fear it will get worse.

Nice to have the visitors tho!

Regards