Number of Syncs

Files.com places no limit on the number of Syncs you can configure on the platform.

Remote Servers, however, almost always limit the number of inbound connections they accept. Contact the system administrator of the remote server to determine its limits.

A one-to-one relationship between Syncs and remote servers avoids connection limits. For example, fifty Syncs each pointing at one of fifty separate remote servers scale without contention.

A many-to-one relationship between Syncs and a single remote server is constrained by that server's connection limits and performance. For example, fifty Syncs configured against a remote server that supports only five concurrent connections will run five at a time.

The exact number of Syncs that produces the best performance against a given remote server depends on automatic retries, sync intervals, folder depth and breadth, file count, file size, network performance, and remote system performance. Calibrate Sync settings, including the time interval between syncs, until you find the configuration that works best for your remote server.

Limitations Associated With High Numbers of Syncs

Files.com enforces two limits on accounts with large numbers of configured syncs. By default, no more than five sync jobs start per minute, and no more than five sync jobs run at a time.

For example, one customer has 1,800 sync jobs configured. Regardless of the sync interval specified on each one, each sync job runs no more than once every 6 hours, because 1,800 (# of syncs) / 60 (minutes per hour) / 5 (max sync jobs per minute) = 6 hours.

As with every limit on Files.com, increased limits are available when warranted. Contact our Support Team to discuss your use case.

For customers who have upgraded this limit, the upgraded value applies both to the number of sync jobs that can start per minute and to the number of sync jobs that can run at a time.