Hardware manual

26 Chapter 1 Mac OS X Server in Action
Data Centers
Mac OS X Server provides the full range of services you need if you host ecommerce
websites or provide other Internet services that require high availability and scalability.
 High-availability support includes automatic restart after a service or power failure,
software RAID, disk space monitoring, file system journaling, and Open Directory
replication. In addition, IP failover can be configured using IP over FireWire, which
lets you interconnect redundant servers without using up gigabit Ethernet ports.
 On some computers, you can improve physical connection availability by using link
aggregation. Link aggregation configures several physical network links as a single
logical link to improve the capacity and availability of network connections.
 You can host many websites on a single server. You can host each site with its own IP
address (multihoming) or you can configure multiple sites with a single IP address
(virtual hosting).
 Mac OS X Server’s web service lets you set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection
for secure Internet connections.
 Mac OS X Server has built-in support for Perl, Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP).
File services
VPN service
DHCP service
DNS service
Firewall service
Software
update service
JBoss
Open Directory
Mail service
Web service
WebDAV service
FTP service
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