# MacStadium Reviews **Vendor:** Macstadium **Category:** [Managed Hosting Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/managed-hosting) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 5 ## About MacStadium MacStadium is a private cloud services provider and software-as-a-service leader delivering scalable and secure enterprise cloud solutions exclusively for macOS. The company’s suite of advanced software-enabled infrastructure, combined with its innovative technology, delivers the security, performance, reliability and flexibility its DevOps customers require for successful app development on Apple devices. Powered by MacStadium, Orka® (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple) Platform is the only Kubernetes-native virtualization layer available for Mac build infrastructure. MacStadium is a Summit Partners portfolio company with multi-site operations in the U.S. and EU. ## MacStadium Reviews ### 1. Great Customer Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajdeep M. | Chief Technical Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2024 **What do you like best about MacStadium?** MacStadium's best thing is their wide range of offerings, at great pricing, and great customer service. **What do you dislike about MacStadium?** While I've liked their customer service, I've found considerable bugs where my instances randomly get stopped. Although, most of these can be traced to older macOS version, as I haven't noticed that after upgrading. **What problems is MacStadium solving and how is that benefiting you?** MacStadium is one of the only reliable provider of macOS Servers. It solves the need of my team for high-performance macOS Build Infrastructure. ### 2. Best macOS machines for CI/CD integrations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2024 **What do you like best about MacStadium?** What's best, in my opinion, about MacStadium is the easiness of use and a wide choice of different mac machines from mac minis to mac studios while also being able to customize the storage and the CPU. It also offers a very good and useful set of documentation. **What do you dislike about MacStadium?** The first thing that comes to mind is the elevated price compare to other cloud machines provider and the lack of a true scalable solution. There is no way to automatically change/upgrade the machine. **What problems is MacStadium solving and how is that benefiting you?** MacStadium is helping us hosting our CI/CD integration system. This means that we can easily automate our testing suite and our deploying logic for software that requires macOS. ### 3. Ready infrastructure to host and test on Mac devices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh V. | Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about MacStadium?** It is cost effective easy to setup and provides bare metal Mac devices for Mac Os development and testing. **What do you dislike about MacStadium?** They bill monthly or annually and not hourly which is a problem. **What problems is MacStadium solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has allowed host and develop for Mac devices and also allowed testing for Mac devices for MacOs specific softwares. ### 4. Self host your CI/CD machine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about MacStadium?** We used MacStadium to host bare metal machines for our CI/CD needs. Rare downtime, relatively okayish to set up a machine, and less cost are what we liked the best. **What do you dislike about MacStadium?** Sometimes the downtime and customer support is difficult to deal with. **What problems is MacStadium solving and how is that benefiting you?** Host the machine for CI/CD for our range of mobile apps. ### 5. Great option to test and develop on Mac **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2022 **What do you like best about MacStadium?** Mac Stadium offers the ability to set up Apple servers and VMs with a simple interface. **What do you dislike about MacStadium?** The only billing options are monthly or annually. Other providers offer hourly pricing which would allow most users to save if a Mac server is not required. **What problems is MacStadium solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have considered using Mac Stadium as a staging environment to test and develop apps on. - [View MacStadium pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/macstadium/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+09%3A02%3A49+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1619a87a-8f70-4669-b001-c5b40e4d60bd&secure%5Btoken%5D=08e77d86b30eea4519a0b198c9aad6f69285ec113cc97c0f7f9bc4ceaece5f7f&format=llm_user) ## Top MacStadium Alternatives - [Pantheon](https://www.g2.com/products/pantheon/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (586 reviews) - [Hostwinds](https://www.g2.com/products/hostwinds/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (419 reviews) - [WordPress.com](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-com/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,666 reviews)