I started Halfpenny Mac to give developers a Mac in the cloud that's actually in the UK, and it's grown into a proper managed service for customers in the UK and beyond.
I started this because I needed a persistent Mac for an iOS CI pipeline and couldn't find a credible UK option. MacStadium, MacInCloud, AWS EC2 Mac: all capable services, all US-based. That means US pricing, transatlantic latency, and your data sitting under a foreign jurisdiction. There was a clear gap for a properly engineered UK alternative.
I'm a CTO based in the Cotswolds, and I'd been running Macs as production infrastructure for years: CI/CD pipelines, local LLM inference, AI agents like OpenClaw. Apple silicon is exceptionally well-suited to this work: fast, efficient, and stable under sustained load. The hardware was proven and the opportunity was obvious. Halfpenny Mac is what that turned into: the same setup I run myself, packaged so you don't have to.
Every customer gets dedicated hardware: a real Mac mini, UK-hosted, fully managed. No shared kernels, no virtual machines, no noisy neighbours. The service includes Tailscale for secure access, nightly encrypted snapshots to Backblaze, and active monitoring on every machine. You sign in and it works.
Support is built into the platform. Heavy automation and active monitoring catch most issues before customers notice them, and anything that needs a human goes straight to the source, not an offshore call centre or a triage queue. For indie developers, small iOS teams, and AI engineers, that means infrastructure that just works, built by someone who runs Macs the same way you do.
If that's the kind of service you're after, signing up is the entry point. Capacity is ready, and most machines are provisioned within 48 hours.
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