A world where that spike in traffic is handled seamlessly, without requiring you to closely monitor that deployment and make sure it doesn’t end up with an escalation. That’s it! There’s nothing else you need to configure.Imagine a world where you no longer have to worry about that upcoming huge deployment of Microsoft content that could impact the bandwidth at a site where your company has 40 employees, all using the same T1 connection. (You need to have a minimum of 25GB of available space on the computer you’re using.) Define how much space you want dedicated to cached data.Download and install the Server app on any computer in your network.
The beauty of the caching service is that it requires very little configuration on your part. If the content is not available on your caching server, the caching server requests the content from Apple’s servers and as it downloads that content from Apple it simultaneously delivers that content to the device on your network that requested it.If the server has a copy of the content the caching server delivers it directly to the device.When a device on your network requests content from Apple’s servers, Apple’s servers tell that device to check and see if the registered caching server has that content.When you install the Server app and turn on the Caching service your server registers with Apple’s servers letting them know that your server is available to cache Apple content for all the computers on the networks behind your public Internet address.If you’re using a caching server, 500MB gets downloaded from Apple and the other 24.5GB are downloaded from your server, making the most of your faster network speeds and reducing the amount data downloaded from the Internet. If you have 50 Macs and each one of those devices has to connect to Apple’s servers over the Internet to download the update, that’s 25GB of data downloaded directly from Apple using a connection that is much slower than your private network. Think of it this way: It’s Monday morning and Apple has released a new OS update that is 500MB in size.
What this means, practically speaking, is that instead of making all the Mac and iOS devices in your network run out over the Internet to download and update content from Apple’s servers, you can host those updates on your servers, which makes for faster updates and less external bandwidth usage.
( You’ll find a full list of supported content and supported Mac and iOS versions and country restrictions here.)Īpple’s Server app can be configured to cache and update apps and other Apple software for all the devices on your network. It caches all software updates, App Store purchases, iBook downloads, iTunes U downloads (apps and books purchases only), and Internet Recovery software that local Mac and iOS devices download. …speeds up the download of software distributed by Apple through the Internet.
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