What are the advantages of moving the application's local database to a remote (own) server?

Question

Database

There is a commercial application. There is a DB delivered together with software. The database needs to be kept up to date (entities: spare parts, devices, etc., etc.). Is it worth it to move the database to our server? What are the benefits? How does this help protect data? How to protect data? Should I bother or leave the database local for the client and just update it? What for generally take out a DB on the servers? After all, if they want to merge data from the database, they simply sniff the traffic, and so on. Maybe there is something else that I do not consider.

Answer 1

When moving the database to the server, you will need:

• contain and maintain the server infrastructure, choosing a location that is geographically optimal in relation to clients
  
• implement an API for working with clients via HTTPS with authentication
  
• implement API on clients to work with the server
  
• think over the application architecture so that the API server does not become a performance bottleneck
  
• consider a synchronization mechanism