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Considering OS X Server for home users

This is ultimately a simple yet tough question to answer, and the best way of looking at OS X Server is not that it solves some unknown problem, but rather that it provides new and enhanced functionality that may be useful to you, depending on your needs.

The standard OS X Client already comes with a number of "servers" that you can configure in basic ways. To see them, just go to the Sharing system preferences and you can see there are a Web server (Web Sharing), a file server (File Sharing), and a print server (Printer Sharing), among others, and these are by default configured to host simple sharing setups that are useful for most people. The difference between these and OS X Server is that OS X Server offers far more options for configuring and expanding these services, as well as providing others that are not included in OS X client.

For example, in OS X you already have the ability to "serve" Web pages by enabling Web Sharing in the Sharing system preferences. This enables a fully featured Web server (called Apache) but with a configuration that is easy to manage, and for the most part it just shows Web pages that you place in your Sites folder. In reality, however, the Apache program is much more dynamic and powerful, and can be configured to proxy Web sites, host multiple Web sites, offer numerous feature plug-ins, and handle a number of complex Web-related tasks that are not enabled in the client. OS X Server not only has Apache configured to better use these features, but provides interfaces for easily configuring and enabling them.

Source: CNET (blog)

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