>Not sure what you mean by that - can you elaborate?
Each server has its IIS installed locally. Their root Web site is located however on the NAS. But, as any ASP.NET application, whenever an .aspx page is accessed for the first time, it will read it from the disk and cache it. The first hit to every .aspx page is a little bit longer. That comes after the DLL have been compiled into the IIS architecture. But, after that, if all there is is database requests returning HTML content, then there isn't much a NAS usage required.
>It's worth pointing out that default Samba/SMB settings even on some high-end well-regarded NASs are not always compatible with all Windows functions e.g.
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=189&t=48793Ok, that is scary. Let me verfy what is the NAS we have.