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Plex Server
Hey all,
I'm looking for a nice, affordable box to host plex media server, I'll be uploading a fair amount of movies, so 1TB HDD is preferred, my current plex server has:
6 GB RAM
120 GB SSD
West Coast (US)
Unfortunately my current provider (won't name them here) is unable to provide more storage for 3 months (when they order more drives) and I've maxed out my storage, so I'm looking for offers, I'm not fussy on the ram, only fussy on the storage, needs to be greater than or equal to 250 GB, and be upgradable when needed.
I'm willing to pay in 3-6-9-12 month terms (minimum 3), depending on the age of the company providing and the specifications, I have no issues signing a contract and providing ID verification.
Comments
If you're happy with your current host, can't you just get some cheap storage and mount it on the current server?
Just to get clarification. Are you looking for SSD or HDD?
HDD
Ssd plex server is too good
What kind of usage? How many concurrent users? Will you transcode? CPU plays a big part with plex. You speak of affordable, but whats your true budget?
@gcat how much are you paying currently? And would you be willing to pm me the provider ?
Budget?
Hi, like @Nekki said just order affordable storage server and mount it using for example NFS to your current server. All needed calculation will be done on your current server and data will be stored on storage server.
Take a look at our storage servers, you will be surprised by price needed to order 1 TB storage server
Europe to West USA (As his requirements if you bothered to read) isn't going to be sufficient speed for plex transcoding at high quality rate.
If you will use storage server only for storing data and it would be mounted to your current server all transcoding would still be on current server. In this case "raw" data would be downloaded from storage to Plex server which needs less port speed. However, first of all, of course you should check speed between storage and Plex server to see if it's enough for "raw" data downloading.
I've had a storage server and the speeds were terrible along with the I/O to use as a mounted storage on my plex server in dallas.
Just speaking from my experience from you guys.
+1
Had a ticket open about that just yesterday (network speeds), they said they couldn't do anything about it. It was 4mbps going from their DC to Choopa NJ.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯I'm doing this now with SSHFS, would NFS perform better?
Yup.... I was getting 3.6mbps from their DC to softlayer.
I get around 220mbps from hetzner to my SL box in dallas.
Could you please perform iperf test and share results (or PM):
http://lg.time4vps.eu/
Thank you.
Bro local with the Mac Pro on my fiber connection at home. Thinking of getting a pi 3 and dedicating it as a Plex server. Most of my Storage is USB anyways and you don't need a full USB 3 connection to stream movies. Probably pre transcode then download to it.
Use it as a storage server aswell.
It's almost pointless to use a dedicated host for something personal unless you need a specific connection mix/blend of providers. Or absolutely need a manager solution.
Go local.
Hello.
We can provide server in Ukraine, from 40-50$/m. Contact US
That's probably not going to happen, just so you're not staring at your inbox for a few hours.