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Hi
I have used EE some years ago and still have a licence. Recently I have developed the idea to create a help forum in portuguêse for a software called filemaker.
I am studying to use phpbb or my EE licence, which is unused together with the discussionforum module.
I run my commpany on a mountain lion server, an apple server product. Mountain Lion server only features postgres as a database. It uses this postgres for all processes of the server.
This is my first question: Does EE run with postgres as database?
2. Would it be possible to install MYSQL on the Server machine, to run alongside postgres WITHOUT any maior trouble? I know that few people here can probably know this….but hints and opinions are appreciated.
3. Do you think it is safe practice to run this help forum on my company server. Are the technical problems that can arise higly probable or unlikely? Hacking, serverload etc. etc.

Help appreciated
Pierre

EE doesn’t support Postgres, but you can safely install MySQL on Mountain Lion server. There’s a lot of resources out on the net to help you out.

As to running EE on an OSX server, it runs fine. I run several EE sites, and a lot of other websites and email/ftp server just fine on the same server. As to performance, it will depend on the hardware you have Mountain Lion installed on, and the load other server process place on that server. I manage a snow leopard server for one client on an older 2.4ghz Mac Mini with 3gb ram, and a 10k rpm server-grade mirrored raid. The performance of EE on this setup far exceeds any shared hosting service I’ve run EE on. The server rarely cracks 15% total cpu utilization and processes complex page queries in a fraction of the time it takes on a shared host.

As to security, you can lock down an OSX server as well as any, but you have to have a bit of experience to do so, or trust your network/system admin to handle it.

hope this helps, -jim

Jim,
thanks a lot for your very helpful answer. I am my own system admin and not very, very savvy, that is why I am not sure yet if I want EE on our server.
Our server is more or less stable, but sometimes it chokes on strange things, which always take me some time to resolve.
For example I created a new site yesterday….and all the entries for the other sites got lost in the server app. I managed to recreate them…but… it makes one suspicious about the stability of the platform.
Anyway… thanks for the reply.
Yours
Pierre