Computer for BIMcloud Server

[Narska]

I just bought a mac mini, so I have a dedicated always-on (never sleeps) computer to host my company's BIMcloud basic server.

I'm really happy with the setup.

What do you use to host your server?

I've had a computer burn a hard drive out after two years of nonstop hosting of my BIM server. Has anyone experienced this?

[Narska]

Remember that all projects have a local copy on each computer that accesses the server. Your server could burn up any moment, and you would not lose a thing.

[Lingwisyer]

True, but does any office work purely in AC? Or do you resort to spending extra on a second server? Though I guess you could put all your Adobe files onto their cloud, and all the Microsoft files onto theirs, etc... or all the rest onto Dropbox or Onedrive...

[Narska]

I have a small office, and yes, I have a computer that is just a server, and we are militantly only Archicad. My AC files are local to the server and only get up in the cloud when we back up every couple of days.

[webberstudio]

We have a Synology server for our work files, and our Bimcloud mac Mini is solely for AC24 files.

[TjardaRV]

thanks for sharing. I am looking also into replacing the trashcan Mac Pro for a M1 Mac mini. Do you have 8gb or 16gb or ram?

[Narska]

8gb is prob enough, the server doesn't use that much.

The main thing is to get a 1 terabit harddrive, as bimcloud files and backups get big quickly.