I am currently using QB Desktop Premier 2023 and have used only desktop versions since day 1. My data file is on my file server. I have upgraded my service to 16 CPU's, 64G of RAM, 10G Ethernet and even moved my entire companyFiles to an NVME drive. The company file is only 86Mb, .ND is 1K, tlg is 1M. Other than being the domain controler for 2 users and occasional fileserver QB is literally the only task running on the server.