A file command that might take a few seconds or less to execute when sent across a local-area network to a server in the same office building can often take several minutes or more when the server ...

Local file server, if that's all you need in-house, might be done just as well with a BuffaloNAS or other similar device. Easier to manage than a Windows install, just can't do as much.

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Make a NAS A NAS or Network-Attached Storage device is effectively a local file server that lets you store and access data on your local network using hard drives.

Single copies of applications can also reside on a WebFS server, saving a company the cost of acquiring multiple licenses per local file server.

In recent months I've dabbled with Ubuntu Server, Docker, Portainer, building my own configuration files and the wonders of VLANs, all through getting into self-hosting.

I'm hearing rumblings about some of our APAC users taking minutes at a time to load excel files over the network from the local file server. This seemed to start about 3 weeks ago, the ...

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Small file transfers from an online server don’t take much longer than from local storage hardware, but larger files will take noticeably longer.