What do you mean... I'm asking if there is away to make vb to be able to do this... I'm not sure how the process would work since i'm not a coder... Although i do have a friend that uses vb also but he uses a cluster of servers that work together, but i'm just trying to see if someone has thought of away just to use 1 server for the forum and the other server for just storing the attachments.... I guess the process can be any of the methods that you mentioned above but not sure how that coder would make it happen...