We restarted the server once every holiday season. Never failed in the three years I was there. No photo or document containers were involved. Other occasional users were in the field from coast to coast. Years ago, I had a very good experience with an entry level Apple Xserve Xeon 2.0 "Quad Core" (Late 2006) running FMS v8.5 with a 45+ multi-file solution with ~12 constant users (but more licenses) at a manufacturing facility on the west coast, 2 shifts. (My intention is not to start a discussion about the merits or otherwise of peer-to-peer networking.) I would be interested to hear of others' experience and advice regarding practical minimum requirements - in cases like these. This doesn't have a great deal of impact on CPU usage and RAM usage stays at about 55%. I have done only very limited testing: continually sorting large numbers of records on two computers connected to the server (ie constant progress bars).
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I have a copy of FMS 18 installed on some cheap hosting, for testing purposes: Windows Server 16 Standard, 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD. I think many such companies offer a good service, often based on many years' experience of FMS hosting. It seems FileMaker hosting companies typically offer dedicated (virtual) servers with far lower specifications, for their basic plans - eg 4GB RAM with SSD drives from 30GB. The FileMaker Server 18 minimum requirements include 8GB RAM and a hard drive of 100GB or more (with a minimum of 50GB free).
These are typically 2-3 users (just a single user in one case) who may have used this type of networking for many years.
I'm considering server/hosting options for some of my customers who currently use FileMaker's peer-to-peer networking.
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