# Setting up Files (High Performance Backend)

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If you connect to localhost then encryption isn’t necessary from a data in transit perspective. It may be different if an unencryted port is exposed. That may be mitigated using a local fw. However, especially for multiple instances on one server, I’d use sockets and avoid network stack at all.

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