Everything developers ask before renting a dedicated Mac mini M4 — how access works, how billing cycles renew, what changes between regions, and what happens to your data at the end.
Provisioning is automated end to end. Once Stripe confirms your payment, the machine is prepared and your access credentials go to the email you used at checkout — typically within minutes. There is no sales call, quote form or manual approval in the path.
If credentials have not arrived after a reasonable wait, check your spam folder first, then email us at [email protected].
Both SSH and VNC are enabled on every machine, pointing at the same dedicated hardware:
Any standards-compliant VNC client works; macOS Screen Sharing connects out of the box. See the use cases page for typical workflows on each channel.
Yes. Your account has administrator rights on macOS, so installing Xcode versions, Homebrew, Ruby toolchains, CI agents or anything else your pipeline needs is entirely up to you. Treat it like a machine on your own desk — because physically, it is one.
Four cycles, one machine. The Mac Mini M4 · 16GB / 256GB bills in USD:
Longer cycles carry a lower effective daily rate. The full comparison, including add-ons, lives on the pricing page.
Renew before your current cycle ends and you keep the same physical machine, same IP, same disk contents. Nothing is reinstalled.
If a rental expires without renewal, the machine is scheduled for reclamation and the disk is wiped before it returns to the pool. Export build caches, keychains and artifacts you care about before the cycle closes.
Yes, and it is the pattern we recommend: start on a daily or weekly rental to validate that your workflow runs cleanly, then move to a monthly or quarterly plan once the box becomes a permanent build node. Our post on choosing a rental period walks through the math. Email [email protected] and we will help with the transition.
Machines are available in Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, US East and US West. Hardware, software image and pricing are identical in every location — the only practical difference is network latency.
Rule of thumb: pick the region closest to whoever types into the shell most. For unattended CI a few extra milliseconds are irrelevant; for interactive VNC sessions they are very noticeable.
Not in place — your rental is bound to a physical machine in the region you picked at checkout. To relocate: back up your data, order a machine in the new region, migrate, and let the old rental lapse at the end of its cycle. If timing is tight, tell us and we will coordinate.
Extra SSD is dedicated external storage attached to your Mac and mounted as an additional volume in macOS — ideal for DerivedData, simulator images and archive output that would crowd the 256GB internal disk.
The add-on shares the billing cycle of the machine it is attached to and appears on the same invoice. Select it during checkout on the pricing page.
Add-ons are configured per rental at checkout. To change storage mid-way, the cleanest path is to apply the new configuration at your next renewal; if you cannot wait, contact us and we will find a workable slot. Removing an SSD add-on wipes that volume, so copy data off it first.
Each rental maps one-to-one to a physical Mac mini. There is no hypervisor slicing the chip and no other tenant on the box — the M4's full performance is yours for every compile.
Only the credentials issued to you can log in. We do not enter your session during an active rental unless you explicitly request support work that requires it.
When a rental expires or is cancelled, the internal disk and any attached Extra SSD volumes are wiped before the hardware returns to the pool. We do not retain copies of your files, so export signing keys, provisioning profiles and artifacts before the cycle ends. How we handle account and payment data is documented in the Privacy Policy.
Treat the box like any single-tenant build server you administer: store certificates in the macOS keychain, restrict SSH to key-based auth, and rotate credentials on your own schedule. Because the hardware is dedicated and wiped after your rental, there is no cross-tenant exposure — but secret hygiene inside the machine remains your responsibility.
Cancelling is as simple as not renewing — there is no lock-in beyond the cycle you already paid for, and no exit paperwork.
Refund eligibility and every service commitment are defined exclusively by the Terms of Service; nothing in this FAQ extends them. If a failure on our side kept you from using the machine, contact us with the details and we will review it under those terms.
We commit only to what the Terms of Service state — no verbal or FAQ-level promises beyond that document. In practice we run dedicated hardware in professional facilities and fix faults promptly, but if your workload needs contractual guarantees, read the terms first and ask us anything unclear before you order.
Development, CI/CD, testing and general macOS workloads are all fair game. Abuse — spam, attacks, anything unlawful — is prohibited and grounds for termination as set out in the Terms of Service. When in doubt about a workload, ask before deploying.
Pick a region, pick a cycle, and have a dedicated Mac mini M4 in your pipeline within minutes. Anything still unclear, we read every message.