Cloud hosted filePro (Jose Lerebours)

[Don]

"I am also caught between option of migrating fp application to LINUX and
take it from there, but the migration comes at a cost; I do wonder if
the cost of migration is justified given that one may save in the WIN
side of things"

You may want to consider Synology.
Their latest NAS/Server system holds 300 petabytes and the smaller ones have a couple of hard drives. 
I purchased a DS620slim.
DS Disk Station, 6 slots, First released in 2020, slim for SSDs

I have mine populated with six 2 terabyte SSD drives.
The station runs quiet and cool on 6 watts. It takes up very little space on the desk. The hard drive version (DS1621) is a little bigger, hotter, louder, and uses more power. They do have more hardware (memory, etc,) to help compensate for the hard drives.  Otherwise, they are less costly. For backing up my older Drobo NAS I am replacing drives with WD Red Plus 4 TB (Recommended for small to medium sized business NAS workloads).

For the issue of running Windows filePro on *nix, Windows 10 is on 2 of "my" desk computers. filePro 5.0, Win 10,  and my Synoloy DSM  (Latest Ubuntu update ).

From: Synology NAS Setup Guide for Home & Small Business
DSM 7.2.n Version, Nicholas Rushton , BA Hons.

Pg 15
"Just about any modern computer can be used with a DiskStation. The computers can be running any mixture of Windows 11 or Windows 10 and Home or Professional versions of Windows are equally suitable"
< mentions older versions of windows>  <mentions macOS/iPadOS >

Since my version of filePro is Win 5.0 single user, I called Synology to ensure file locking was supported for filePro. I was told that it was supported by SMB.

If you do go to the cloud, go should probably verify support for snap-shots.

Don  
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