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  "VPS host hardware and VMs-per-host not disclosed. A multi-tenant macOS VPS sits uneasily with the Apple SLA requirement that a lessee gets \"sole and exclusive use\" of the leased Mac (licensing grey zone).",
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  "Refund only within the first 14 days ('Refund requests must be submitted within fourteen (14) calendar days'); crypto payments non-refundable; late payments 1.5%/month; remote hands $100/h (30-min increments) or $160/h after hours; 'Excessive usage may result in additional fees' despite 'Unlimited Bandwidth'. Annual billing only after 90 days active (discount not stated). VPS is VMware-based (FAQ: '/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools/')."
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   "note": "No secrets-injection/HTTP-proxy feature exists anywhere in the docs, FAQ, or portal; it is a plain VPS/dedicated-server host where any credentials would simply live on the machine.",
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   "note": "VPS tier is virtualized macOS (VMware Tools present inside the guest, per FAQ) — closest fit to the 'apple-vm' bucket for virtualized macOS. The separate 'dedicated' mode is a whole physical Mac mini/Studio (bare-metal), not virtualized; the two modes differ.",
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   "quote": "Is it possible to upgrade to a better VPS package with more RAM / Disk space at a later time? Yes, Simply open a ticket with support and specify which package you would like to upgrade to and we will schedule the upgrade at your convenience.",
   "note": "Disk capacity is a fixed per-plan attribute changed only by migrating to a bigger plan via support ticket; current live pricing/FAQ pages show no customer-facing 'attach an extra volume' feature.",
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   "quote": "How do I control my macOS Cloud Server? ... We recommend NoMachine, Apple Remote Desktop, or VNC. ... For those users that wish to connect via terminal, SSH is enabled on all servers by default.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — access is only via remote-desktop tools, SSH, and a WHMCS billing/support portal; no first-party task/browser/computer-use agent API exists.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "note": "Provider explicitly markets native Python availability on the VPS/dedicated macOS servers.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "quote": "High-Performance Web Hosting & Backend Development Deploy fast, reliable web applications using Node.js, Django, Ruby on Rails, or Laravel on a dedicated macOS cloud server.",
   "note": "Provider explicitly markets Node.js-based web app deployment on the macOS servers.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "source": "https://hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting",
   "quote": "All Mac VPS cloud servers come with a dedicated IP address with Remote Desktop, SSH and full Administrator access.",
   "note": "No provider-side ingress control feature (private/auth URLs, IP allowlists, security groups) is documented; customers only get a dedicated public IP and would configure macOS's own pf firewall themselves (guest_firewall).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "value": false,
   "source": "https://hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting",
   "quote": "macOS Tahoe Cloud Lite ... Unlimited Bandwidth",
   "note": "No provider-side outbound restriction/allowlist or no-internet mode is documented anywhere; bandwidth/egress is marketed as unrestricted ('Unlimited Bandwidth').",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "source": "https://hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting",
   "quote": "macOS Tahoe Cloud Lite ... Unlimited Bandwidth",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — a plain macOS VPS/dedicated host has no HTTP method/path-level egress control feature.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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  "hipaa": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/terms-of-service",
   "quote": "The Company adheres to applicable data protection laws and ensures reasonable measures are taken to secure Customer data.",
   "note": "No mention of HIPAA eligibility or a BAA anywhere on the site's legal/marketing pages.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "sso": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://portal.hostmyapple.com/",
   "quote": "Login ... Forgot Password?",
   "note": "Customer account access is via a standard WHMCS username/password portal login; no SAML/OIDC single sign-on option is offered or mentioned.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "eu_data_residency": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "We provide users with macOS hosted cloud systems in our three amazing data centers located in Atlanta Georgia, Denver Colorado and Amsterdam The Netherlands.",
   "note": "Amsterdam, Netherlands is an EU location customers can pick, so machines/data can be kept in the EU.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "max_session_h": {
   "value": "none",
   "source": "https://hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting",
   "quote": "macOS Tahoe Cloud Lite / iMessage Package $24.99/mo Instant Activation ... Unlimited Bandwidth ... 24 Hour Support",
   "note": "These are always-on monthly-billed VPS/dedicated Mac servers (min_billed_seconds = one month in the card) with no session/runtime cap; the machine runs until stopped or cancelled, like a VM, not a time-boxed sandbox.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "snapshot": {
   "value": "none",
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "How do I backup the data from my macOS VPS or Dedicated Server? We recommend backing up your data using any number of popular services such as DropBox or Backblaze.",
   "note": "No first-party snapshot/checkpoint product; only a support-ticket 'reset to original state' and third-party backup recommendations.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "pause_resume": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "If you need us to reboot your Mac Mini, just open a ticket and we can reboot it for you free of charge.",
   "note": "Only reboot is offered (via ticket or customer portal); VPS/dedicated are always-on monthly subscriptions with no pause/suspend billing state anywhere in FAQ, VPS or dedicated pages.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "fork": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "Can you reformat my macOS VPS Image? Yes! We can reset your VPS image back to it's original state at any time. For more information please submit a ticket.",
   "note": "Only a reset-to-stock-image action exists; no cloning/duplicating a machine into new instances is offered anywhere on the site.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "fork_running": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "Can you reformat my macOS VPS Image? Yes! We can reset your VPS image back to it's original state at any time.",
   "note": "No mention of cloning a live/running machine; the only machine-state operation exposed is reboot or ticket-based image reset.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "memory_snapshot_fork": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "We recommend backing up your data using any number of popular services such as DropBox or Backblaze.",
   "note": "No snapshot feature of any kind (see snapshot=none), so a memory-included snapshot fork is not possible.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "The are a number of tools available to allow you to control you Mac remotely. We recommend NoMachine, Apple Remote Desktop, or VNC. ... For those users that wish to connect via terminal, SSH is enabled on all servers by default.",
   "note": "Only human-operated remote-desktop/SSH clients are offered; there is no API/SDK for an agent to drive the screen (no provisioning or agent API found anywhere on the site).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "custom_image": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "Can you reformat my macOS VPS Image? Yes! We can reset your VPS image back to it's original state at any time.",
   "note": "Machines only reset to the provider's stock image via support ticket; there is no way to boot from or upload a custom image.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "wake_on_request": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/dedicated-mac-hosting",
   "quote": "Monthly hosting ... commit_note: Monthly subscription, instant activation.",
   "note": "VPS and dedicated Macs are always-on monthly-billed servers (min_billed_seconds = one month); no stopped/sleeping state exists for a request to wake from.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "auto_stop_idle": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "If you need us to reboot your Mac Mini, just open a ticket and we can reboot it for you free of charge.",
   "note": "No idle-timeout stop/sleep behaviour is documented anywhere; machines run continuously for the whole monthly billing period.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "volumes": {
   "value": null,
   "was": false,
   "note": "doubtful \"no\" could not be confirmed: A prior audit note mentions an 'external NVMe SSD' monthly add-on for dedicated Mac minis, which would resemble an attachable persistent volume, but the relevant order-configuration pages are currently out of stock / unreachable (portal.hostmyapple.com cart items 39/41/43/57 all return 'Out of Stock') so no live official quote could be obtained this session. Left as unclear rather than corrected without a fresh source.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "inbound_https": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting",
   "quote": "Web Server A popular use, using the available Server.app you can host single or multiple w[ebsites]... Dedicated IP address",
   "note": "reviewed: proposed correction rejected (Every VPS/dedicated plan ships a dedicated public IPv4 with full root/admin access and an unrestricted guest firewall (pf, opened per the provider's own port-opening blog post); the provider explicitly markets running your own web server(s) on the box. That is sufficient to reach any port over HTTPS by pointing DNS at the dedicated IP and terminating TLS yourself, even though there's no managed HTTPS-proxy/URL product.)",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "agent_harnesses": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "We recommend NoMachine, Apple Remote Desktop, or VNC. ... For those users that wish to connect via terminal, SSH is enabled on all servers by default.",
   "note": "No coding-agent harness (Claude Code/Codex/OpenCode/etc.) is preinstalled or offered as a template; this is a bare macOS VPS/dedicated server product aimed at human developers connecting over remote-desktop/SSH.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "gpu": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/dedicated-mac-hosting",
   "quote": "Full admin privileges & GPU acceleration for intensive workloads ... Machine learning and AI development using TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Apple's Core ML. With GPU acceleration, process large datasets and train models efficiently in a macOS environment.",
   "note": "reviewed: proposed correction rejected (The provider explicitly advertises 'GPU acceleration' on dedicated Mac mini/Studio plans for ML workloads (TensorFlow/PyTorch/Core ML). This is the Apple Silicon chip's integrated GPU (no discrete/selectable GPU SKU, no gpu_types list, no separate GPU line item) rather than a dedicated NVIDIA/AMD compute GPU, but the product page does claim GPU-accelerated compute is available, so 'gpu: false' understates it.)",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "windows": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/mac-vps-hosting",
   "quote": "No Mac? No Problem! Use your Windows desktop to connect into a HostMyApple MacOS cloud server and gain instance access...",
   "note": "The hosted machines are macOS only; Windows/Linux are only mentioned as the *client* device used to remotely connect to the macOS server, never as a guest OS offered.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "self_host": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://portal.hostmyapple.com/portal/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=1",
   "quote": "HostMyApple is a Mac Virtual Private Server (VPS) service. We provide users with a Mac OS X hosted system it in our amazing datacenter.",
   "note": "HostMyApple is purely a hosted service delivered from the vendor's own datacenter (Atlanta/Denver/Amsterdam); there is no software product a customer could install on their own infrastructure.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "byoc": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://portal.hostmyapple.com/portal/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=1",
   "quote": "HostMyApple is a Mac Virtual Private Server (VPS) service. We provide users with a Mac OS X hosted system it in our amazing datacenter.",
   "note": "Standard VPS/dedicated-hosting billing model (fixed monthly plans/sizes); no option to have HostMyApple deploy/manage the service inside a customer-owned cloud account.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "open_source": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://hostmyapple.com/",
   "quote": "2026 © All Rights Reserved HostMyApple Inc.",
   "note": "HostMyApple is a proprietary, commercial hosting company (WHMCS customer portal, copyrighted site); no OSI-licensed core product exists.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "usage_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://www.hostmyapple.com/faq",
   "quote": "All services are billed on the 1st of every month. You will receive an invoice by email about 2 weeks prior as a reminder and another email as confirmation when payment has been made.",
   "note": "granularity: account-only; cost: no; HostMyApple bills at fixed monthly rates per plan (e.g., Cloud Lite $24.99/mo, Cloud Pro $44.99/mo), not by consumption. The WHMCS customer portal only exposes reboot and cancellation functions; no usage API, SDK, or CLI. Billing data is received only via email invoice for the whole account, never per-sandbox/per-VM.",
   "confidence": "high",
   "checked": "2026-10-01"
  }
 },
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   "country": "US",
   "state": "GA",
   "city": "Atlanta",
   "provider_region": "us-southeast",
   "self_serve": true,
   "choosable": true
  },
  {
   "country": "US",
   "state": "CO",
   "city": "Denver",
   "provider_region": "us-mountain",
   "self_serve": true,
   "choosable": true
  },
  {
   "country": "NL",
   "state": null,
   "city": "Amsterdam",
   "provider_region": "eu-west",
   "self_serve": true,
   "choosable": true
  }
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 "locations_quote": "We provide users with macOS hosted cloud systems in our three amazing data centers located in Atlanta Georgia, Denver Colorado and Amsterdam The Netherlands.",
 "locations_checked": "2026-10-01"
}