[andreboos]

We don't have a server, so I don't have much to add in that respect. We are, however, looking into provisioning an AWS instance for the coming year to host our website, FTP, Mercurial version control for CAD (it doesn't work much better than you would expect) and robot code, as well as some internal Django applications.

We use SolidWorks, and I've been looking into a PDM server for proper version control of SolidWorks models. However, it seems only to run on Windows, and AWS instances with Windows Server are more expensive. Have other FRC teams used PDM for CAD?

Accessing an onsite server from outside the school network would require port forwarding, so you will want to talk to your network administrator about that.