Hi, I have a client that is thinking of either moving to hosted services or moving there equipment into a colocation datacenter.
Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but lets say the client decides on going with moving there servers into a colocation datacenter.
They have a couple File servers. Currently the users just click on a mapped drive to access there files, nice and easy. But lets say the File server is now in the colocation datacenter.
What are some typical ways of accessing the files?
One way would be to setup a vpn tunnel between the client location and the datacenter. Then the users could just use there mapped drives as usual. But im wondering if this experience would be slow or not? Does anyone have experience with this type of setup? Granted I know that slowness can be affected by internet speed, file size and so forth. But the users are use to files opening fast.
Another suggestion to me was that people use a Sharepoint server to handle this. They dont use file sharing anymore, they put all there files into sharepoint. Ive never used sharepoint so I need to get some experience on this. But im wondering if this type of solution works well with lots of files, there is probably about 70 gigs worth of docs and pdf's. Im also curious to what the user experience is like?
How do other people handle having there file server in a datacenter, or i guess its the same as having multiple locations, so how do people handle file access from other locations?
Thanks, Hope this is the appropriate forum for this
Mike