About
MacServe is built by Abhinav Baldha and operated by Delta Four Labs LLP, registered in India. It is small, and it is deliberately narrow.
What it is
Most people who want to run something on the internet rent a computer from somebody else, monthly, forever. Quite a lot of those people already own a Mac that sits idle most of the day, with a fast processor and memory doing nothing.
MacServe runs a real Linux server on that Mac and gives it an address the internet can reach. You keep the hardware and the data. We run the connection.
What it is not
It is not a hosting company, and your files never arrive on our machines. The Linux server runs on your Mac, and it cannot see the Mac’s own filesystem. That is a property of how the virtual machine is built, not a setting we ask you to trust.
It is not a company with a support floor. One person answers support@macserve.io. Replies usually come within a day, and they come from somebody who wrote the thing you are asking about.
And it is not the only MacServe. A Mac colocation business in Dallas has held the name since the nineties, and there is a UK company using it too. We are unrelated to both.
Who
Abhinav Baldha builds and runs it. If you want to see who you are dealing with before pointing a domain at your own hardware, both of these are him:
The operating company is Delta Four Labs LLP, registered in India. Payments go through Polar, who act as the merchant of record, so card details never reach us at all.
How we plan to behave
Three things we would want to know if we were the one paying:
- Nothing renews on its own. A paid plan runs for the period you bought and then stops.
- We do not give refunds, and we say so plainly on the terms page rather than in a footnote. The one exception is that if MacServe shuts down while you have paid time left, you get it back pro rata.
- Your data is not our leverage. It is on your Mac, we cannot read it, and taking your server elsewhere costs you nothing but the time to move it.
Talking to us
Write to support@macserve.io, or see contact. Corrections to this page are welcome, including to this sentence.