Dedicated Apple silicon Mac minis and Mac Studios in two secure south-coast UK datacentres. Unlimited bandwidth, a public IPv4 on every machine, and Thunderbolt 5 clustering for local LLMs. We keep the hive running — you just connect.
Two south-coast UK datacentresUnlimited bandwidthPublic IPv4 on every MacThunderbolt 5 cluster-readyIPv6 free on request
What's in the hive
Real Macs, managed. Not a slice of someone else's.
Every machine is dedicated hardware in a racked, monitored datacentre — yours to SSH into, screen-share, and put to work. We handle the boring, fragile parts.
Dedicated hardware
Your own Apple silicon Mac mini or Mac Studio. Not shared, not virtualised, not a slice of something bigger.
Always-on
Two secure south-coast UK datacentres, UPS-backed power, monitored around the clock — we get paged before you do.
Public IPv4 included
Every Mac ships with its own dedicated public IPv4. Add more for a small monthly fee; IPv6 is free on request.
Cluster your Macs
Private networks between machines, plus RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 on any Thunderbolt 5 Mac — M4 Pro and M5 Pro minis, M4 Max, M5 Max and M3 Ultra / M5 Ultra Studios — to pool memory and compute for larger local LLMs.
You control exposure
Every Mac gets its own public IPv4, exposed by default. Put a dedicated pfSense or OPNsense firewall in front of it — included on Studio tiers, £5/mo elsewhere — or keep it fully private over Tailscale. No port forwarding, no faff.
Snapshot rollback
Nightly snapshots of your working config on every Mac, encrypted at rest. Something goes sideways? Roll back in minutes, not days.
Link the comb
One Mac is a worker. Several are a hive.
On any Thunderbolt 5 Mac — M4 Pro and M5 Pro Mac minis, plus M4 Max, M5 Max and M3 Ultra / M5 Ultra Mac Studios — we mesh up to four machines together with RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 and drop them on a private, isolated network. Pool their unified memory and run models that won't fit on any single box — with faster multi-node inference than a public API round-trip. We're not aware of another UK provider that hosts RDMA Mac clusters.
RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 — up to 120Gb/s links at single-digit-microsecond latency between Thunderbolt 5 Macs, no switch in the path.
Private mesh networking — cross-connect up to four Macs; they see each other, the public internet doesn't see them.
Built for local LLMs — pooled unified memory for larger models, and more nodes means more throughput, not less.
Thunderbolt 5 cluster
STUDIO M3 ULTRA
STUDIO M3 ULTRA
STUDIO M3 ULTRA
3 nodes · pooled memory · one model
Pricing
Pick a cell in the hive.
Flat monthly pricing, unlimited bandwidth on every plan, and a public IPv4 included. No egress bills, no surprise invoices.
All prices exclude VAT — MacHive is a business service.VAT-inclusive figures are rounded to the nearest £1.
Virtual firewall (pfSense / OPNsense)included on Studios · £5/mo on minis
Cluster interconnect (RDMA over Thunderbolt 5, private mesh)included on Studio tiers
Time Machine backup storage£8/mo per TB ex VAT
Managed service beyond “up and connected”from £49/mo ex VAT
Claim a cell in the hive.
Tell us what you need — a single Mac or a Thunderbolt 5 cluster — and we’ll have it provisioned and online. We usually reply within one working day, and when your Mac is in stock you’ll be online within one working day of ordering.