Yes, and it's wise not to apply general advice to niche situations: like using a Mac mini for a web host.

With this attitude, we'd all still be running 2U Dell PowerEdge and poor Raspberry Pi would have gone out of business.

It's 2025, almost 2026. A web server from a few years ago has less power than consumer mac Mini today while using much more energy.

Throw out the advice that is from the era of physical install media and let's focus on specific (instead of general, unhelpful) advice as we move into the modern era where cheap computers are just fine.

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comprambler 3 days ago | parent [-]

Your data integrity is at risk not using ECC ram (EXTRA ESPECIALLY IF YOU USE SOFTWARE RAID), which is usually gated out of consumer hardware.

Though those poweredges would have had it.

	▲	leakycap 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Unless you're sending the Mac mini to space as part of this project, the internal hardware ECC built in to Apple silicon SoC combined with the extremely short unified memory paths removes this as a valid concern Any software RAID on macOS is a risk I wouldn't be willing to take, but that is another matter entirely and has nothing to do with ECC.