There are a couple of things I can suggest. Rumpus is perfectly capable of using network resourced drives, such as MyCloud devices or other devices on a local network or high-speed Internet connected resource.
However, the down side to this approach is obviously that you’d need to make sure the the network resource is available and rapidly accessible at all times. This could be an issue if you have a high level of network traffic, such as streaming media. Regardless of whether or not your Rumpus server is participating in the stream, it will still suffer some latency due to the network traffic being processed by your gateway/router/switch. In view of this, I would hesitate to recommend this approach. Instead, the best way you could deal with this is to use a large local drive, whether SSD or HDD. This way, Rumpus would not need to worry about accessing network resources before it can serve to clients. As with any such solution, if you have a network which doesn’t quite cut it in terms of speed, this can slow down the process. A slow Internet connection is also a big handicap with any form of server. As is a NAT network using a single public IP. This is because of the additional load it puts on to the server. So really, what I’m advocating is a locally stored approach, with the highest possible speed of public IP access. If it were possible, I would be looking into the chances of obtaining multiple static IP addresses from your ISP. You’d be amazed just how much that can improve things for server-side functionality. A file transfer mechanism will slow down your NAT network, possibly to the point of gridlock, especially if yo are allowing multi-user simultaneous access via the Internet. Just a few thoughts. > On 16 Jul 2020, at 14:31, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. > Up until recently I was quite content to use the second drive on my Mac mini > Server machine - which runs the Rumps FTP server - for data storage but that > was then > The amount of data I need to store online has increased 5 fold so I’m left > wondering about the most efficient way of handling this. > At the moment I’m using a collection of Seagate Expansion 5TB drives plugged > into spare USB ports, so far so good but I wonder whether there’s a more > practical way of doing this? > > ------------------------------ > > This post, like all posts to the Techno Chat E-Mail group has been scanned by > our server-side antivirus/malware solution. This should not, however, be > viewed as a substitution for your own security strategy. We assume no > culpability whatever, implicit or otherwise, for any compromise to your > systems as a result of opening any post to this group. Suffice it to say that > we remain vigilant within the boundaries of reason. We strongly urge you to > do likewise! You have been warned!!! > > You can find an RSS listing of all posts to this group at: > <https://mail.mac-access.net:7025/list/[email protected]> > or at: > <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=all&[email protected]> > > To encourage your friends to join this group, first accept our thanks for > spreading the word. Then, have them send a message to the list processing > engine at: > <[email protected]> > To toggle on/off Digest (batch) mode for this group, please send a blank > message to: > <[email protected]> > To leave the group, please send a blank message to: > <[email protected]>. > > To contact the support address for this group, please write to: > [email protected]> > > ------------------------------ > ------------------------------ This post, like all posts to the Techno Chat E-Mail group has been scanned by our server-side antivirus/malware solution. This should not, however, be viewed as a substitution for your own security strategy. We assume no culpability whatever, implicit or otherwise, for any compromise to your systems as a result of opening any post to this group. Suffice it to say that we remain vigilant within the boundaries of reason. We strongly urge you to do likewise! You have been warned!!! You can find an RSS listing of all posts to this group at: <https://mail.mac-access.net:7025/list/[email protected]> or at: <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=all&[email protected]> To encourage your friends to join this group, first accept our thanks for spreading the word. Then, have them send a message to the list processing engine at: <[email protected]> To toggle on/off Digest (batch) mode for this group, please send a blank message to: <[email protected]> To leave the group, please send a blank message to: <[email protected]>. To contact the support address for this group, please write to: [email protected]> ------------------------------
