My name is Richard Valk and I’ve started this site to document my experiences in installing and maintaining a mail and web server for multiple domains on a mac platform without resorting to the Mac OS X server installation.

The information on this site represents what I’ve done myself and how I installed my own server which I use to host websites and email accounts for family and friends. My own current setup consists of a Intel CoreDuo Mac mini hosted at Macminicolo.net and a Mac mini G4 backup machine at home connected via an ADSL broadband connection.

The documentation is the result of a lot of Googling and late night experiments with my Macs. I’m no expert on any off the stuff you find here. I just wrote down my findings that made it work for me. I do learn some of the stuff by doing it all myself and by helping out others in solving the problems they encounter with installing the software. I try to write down why some choices where made and why and try to explain possible alternatives. I don’t want you to expect that I have all the answers, but I do find a workable solution for people who run into problems.

If you have a question or a problem, please use the forum for that. It is a better places for discussions than comments on a blogpost. If you find an error in the documentation you’re free to leave a comment.

DIYMacServer is also on Twitter, if you follow me you will get to see what I’m doing for research, the problems I’m solving. The tweets will be only related to this site and you won’t find anything personal or related to what I’m eating.

By the way I do all this next to my normal day job. If you want to know what it is you can read about it on my LinkedIn profile. If you want to link up with me that is fine by me but please tell me where I know you from as I don’t accept all invitations.

If you like what you found and it was really useful to you I would appreciate it if you would donate a small amount to cover my expenses, thanks.

All the documents are free to use, under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Which means you can use the work, copy it, change it as long as you mention or link to my website or name my name in your work. Legal stuff here.

Comments that are no longer relevant to the section that they were posted will be deleted. This as the documentation will change and the comment might refer to errors or different instructions that are no longer there. Spam and offensive comments will be deleted as well!