you’re free to travel lightly and do business from just about anywhere you have an internet connection.

Dedicated file-syncing services and applications are designed to keep your most important documents accessible wherever you go.

AppleiCloud, MicrosoftOneDrive, andGoogle Driveprovide access, editing, and sharing capabilities wherever you have internet.

Google Drive’s My Drive window

Lifewire / Tim Liedtke

The basic plans are free and additional storage space is available for a low fee.

Carbonite,Mozy,CrashPlan, andBackBlazeare a few to consider.

If using email, accessing files remotely is as easy as sending yourself the files in an email message.

the file transfer utility in TeamViewer

Many remote desktop software programs don’t limit you to connecting to your home computer with another computer.

A NAS is a mini remote file server that connects to a home online grid.

Popular NAS boxes that provide access to files remotely includeBuffalo Linkstationand Apple Time Capsule.

Picture of a WD 4TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS WDBVBZ0040JCH-NESN

Western Digital

For Macs,macOS Serveris one option that makes home or small business networking and remote access easy.

There are also Linux server options such asUbuntu Server,openSUSE, andOracle Linux.

If you’d rather go with FTP, there are numerousfree FTP server programs.

Picture of a Linksys AC1750 Dual-Band Smart Wireless Router

Linksys

the HFS file server program in Windows 10