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VPS capable on transcoding at 4K with Plex
At the moment, for my Plex media center I use a dedicated sever from Hetzner Auction. It works awesome, and since I have this server for Plex I use it for other things too (Nextcloud and more). I love this setup, but I miss having my stuff in a personal Kubernetes cluster because I want to keep this skill up to date ( I use GKE at work too but I rarely need to touch anything and it's managed).
I tried setting up everything on CPX31 instances with Hetzner Cloud (I even built a tool to create clusters in Hetzner Cloud easily and quickly - see https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s if interested), but some of the larger videos don't play smoothly like smaller ones (smaller in quality I mean). I should add that I was using a Storage Box mounted with cifs for cheap storage, because the cloud's block storage is a lot more expensive and would cost a lot for a few TBs.
Is anyone using reasonably priced virtual servers that can transcode videos at high quality just fine? If yes, which provider? And what do you use for the storage?
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I should have probably posted this in Help. Can a mod move it if needed?
Not sure but would a seedbox be useful in this case because its specially designed for plex?
P.S -> Don't roast me please
Then I would stay with a dedi. My goal is to migrate everything to Kubernetes. I just created a cluster in Hetzner Cloud using instances with dedicated cores to see if there is any difference. Even though it's quite a bit more expensive.
First, you'll never transcode 4K on a vps because they will ban you for cpu abuse. Second, hetzner will suspend your server for running a kubernetes cluster because kubernetes will periodically broadcast packets to the LAN and the network nazis will send you a warning to fix it or else. If you want full kubernetes, fuck hetzner and go with a different provider like worldstream. they have a dedicated server with GPU for sale currently.
Transcode => CPU abusage => Dedicated cores.
You can set the quality of transcode in plex.
I have a php-friends 4 core VPS with gb5 scores of 3200, Plex runs great even with 6+ streams. They also have storage similar to Hetzner storage box but its more expensive at 10 EUR per TB.
3200 multi core I guess??
Of course, 4 dedi cores of AMD EPYC.
You shouldn't be transcoding 4k in the first place. If you download x264 encodes there won't be any issues.
Which profiles are these in Radarr/Sonarr?
Sorry, I haven't used them.
4k x264? excuse me what the fuck?
Why do you want to transcode 4k?
I guess what I’m asking is, why download 4k quality if you can’t play it at 4k?
Or have I misunderstood what you’re trying to achieve? 😅
Technically you can but that's not what I meant in the earlier comment. Instead of 4k, Vito could download regular x264 encodes to avoid transcoding.
Cant you squeeze Kubernetes on top everything running in your dedicated?