I work for a small/medium sized company that has about 150 employees. Part of my duties is to offer low level (in-house) IT support, fixing software issues, building/upgrading PC's, installing small office networks, etc. We are using a cloud based server which is fairly reasonably priced for our file sharing, the amount of storage we use equates to less than 300GB of files. Unfortunately, we are at 50 users for our cloud based system. If/when we switch over to the more than 50 users mark, we jump into a substantially higher price bracket ($8K+ annually). This is several thousand dollars more than what we're paying now.
I am wondering if there's a feasible on-site server alternative that will cost less than $8,000 a year, that would be easy enough for me to manage. I know that cloud based server companies offer a great amount of flexibility and features, I've enjoyed them immensely. As far as maintaining a server, I don't have a lot of experience in that realm, however I believe that I would be able to get educated on it and perform just well. I would even look into taking some classes at the local college and from the manufacturers. If I can save the company money and add value to my position, it'll be a win for both me and the company.
Please give me some ideas on maybe some NAS devices or server systems and software that would be decent combinations. Thanks.