A warranty that never ends.
Imagine a world where your hosted Mac mini is always under warranty. There is no fear of unexpected labor or hardware costs. If the Mac mini should fail to ever start again, it would be reborn at the same spec or faster. What if I told you that Mac Mini Vault will warranty your Mac mini forever? Earlier this year we added a feature to our Enterprise colocation plan. We didn’t hype it up or do a big press release about it. However, it’s the biggest thing we’ve done since we made our rent2own payment plan a permanent fixture on our order form. Our perpetual warranty is...
read moreIPv6 Beta testing starting soon.
It’s fairly common in tech news, IPv4 assignments are drying up and the internet is running out of addresses. IPv6 was engineered to fix that with enough addresses to last for a very very very long time. Here is a good infographic with some of the statistics. We have been internally testing IPv6 for some time now and recently more of our bandwidth providers have rolled out IPv6 on their networks. We are still in the early stages of our IPv6 deployment. However, we are at the point where we’d like to request the assistance of willing and able customers in doing some testing. ...
read moreChange your SSH port easily.
One of our customers recently linked us to their blog where they have nice collection of OS X Server related articles. Some of the articles sparked a few ideas and we put together a nice little script that will quickly (within seconds) change the port that SSH listens on. Enabling remote SSH access on a Mac is simplistic and easy. Under the sharing preferences there is a ‘Remote Login’ option that requires a single click to be activated. This allows for some powerful remote access via the command line. SFTP file transfers and remotely diagnosing a distressed Mac with...
read moreLocked and Loaded Promotion.
Normally promotions are only applicable to Mac minis added during the promotional period. We sat down with our accountant and told him that we want do a promotion that our current customers can participate in as well. Last time we might have gone too far. He kicked us out of his office and locked the door. It’s been a few days now and this morning he slipped a note out under his door with “2097″ on it. We aren’t sure if thats a year or what. It looks like an approval to us. “Locked and Loaded” is what we are calling this promotion and both current...
read moreFollow up from Outage Yesterday.
We want to shed some light on yesterdays events. We had multiple power failures resulting in a part of our building without any power. This was a unique and rare event and we worked diligently to restore stability for all of our customers. This resulted in a brief, approximately one hour of downtime. There is some important background information about our infrastructure that is pertinent to yesterdays events. - We have two separate power feeds from our local utility company - We currently have two generators - Every customer is placed on a large scale UPS battery backup - The generators...
read moreMacWorld & New Cabinets Promotion
This month we posted the builds of our “D” and “E” cabinets on Facebook and Twitter. We also hit a milestone of hosting over 500 Mac minis in our data center. This also coincides with this years MacWorld Expo. To celebrate all these things we are going to run our MMV-5for6 promo code until February 8th, 2013. This promo code will discount our Enterprise colocation plan by 90% down to $5 per month. For the next 6 months the service will be invoiced at $5, after that the service will go to normal price. Any time after that, customers can downgrade to the Core plan...
read moreThe Future of the Mac mini.
A new year will soon be upon us. Mac Mini Vault is nearing it’s second anniversary of launching a great colocation service for Mac minis. Within a matter of months our built-out capacity will exceed the ability to host 500 Mac minis in our Data Center. Our resources allow us to host nearly an unlimited number of Mac minis, this capacity number is for live wired slots. Mac Mini Vault wasn’t the first to place a Mac mini in a Data Center, but we are one of the largest installations of 2010-2012 Mac minis. Our cabinets specifically are geared to house the latest generations of...
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