Documents on Application Server

We have an application which has lots of attachments. At present we have the document table on application server and one table in database, which connects to document table on the server.
My problem is we are running out of room on the app server, so I want to load the documents to file share server instead of Application server. Has antbody done that? How do I do that?
I would really appreciate the help.
Thanks
Yagna

I don't see any performance decrease by using the db to store the files (and I store many many doc in the db!). But OK if it's one of your requirements and you are aware of the implications of storing the file data away from the control data you need to find the file data, you can still use the sample. Just change the storing and reading the data from/to the db in storing and reading the data from/to the file system.
One problem you have to solve, if you don't want to upload the files (to the file system), is how to get the files to the server. You normally don't have access to the filesystem of the production server or can dictate where to store them. You have to make the access path to the files configurable so that the application can read the files from a path which can be altered by the admins how deploy the app and put the files somewhere on the server.
Keep in mind that such a solution will not scale very well. You have to guarantee that each cluster server can access the files in the file system.
Timo

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