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😁 Same, I was hosting all my websites and clients in servers that I manage myself, then I switch back to Reseller hosting.
But I keep few servers running for test and learn more 🙏
Apart from video, what did you switch to from self hosted alternatives?
I am sure you watched in high quality/resolution and with hardware acceleration, right?> @ehab said:
Now I will
Before I was spending time tinkering and not watching lol
I never managed to watch at high resolution with a vps and also with a dedi I could enable the GPU.
Various things, like some web apps of my own, analytics, task management, notes, Nextcloud, read it later thingy, budgeting
@dosai this is why we can't have nice things...you... on buyvm... running plex on a shared vCore, actually a thread with 512MB, using that SWAP on Fire.
did it last?
You know that Plex (well I personally prefer and use Jellyfin) consumes no resources if you stream directly without transcoding, right? The files are served over the standard nginx socket, at least in Jellyfin, which I believe should be the same for Plex. Transcoding is what hogs the CPU.
I don't have Plex or Jellyfin.
I copy the URI into VLC app and let it play.
Without transcoding, the difficulty is that sometimes the downloaded file is too big, especially those from private trackers.
I've seen 15 GB for one hour of content.
My poor tablet and Fast Ethernet connection cannot handle it.
I've seen 15 GB for one hour of content.
My poor tablet and Fast Ethernet connection cannot handle it.
Let me introduce you to the world of BD 4K remuxes, which I download from Usenet (maybe they have them on private trackers but I hate torrents and the ratio bullshit) so normally a movie for me is a 60GB mkv file for 90min. But you must have a fiber connection, at least 150mbit to be able to play it while "streaming" without any transcoding stuff going around.
My only bottleneck is that I'm lazy sometimes and I watch it on my Macbook 15" instead of the home TV. But that's something fileformats and network can never fix
2022 releases, sorted by size.
Plex is one of those things that, to me, just never made sense to host in a datacenter unless you're trying to serve tv to a gang of people. If you're mostly watching at home, just run plex on a home server / NAS / etc, and if you can't/don't want to source content from your home, use a much cheaper VPS to download and sync to your home. I'm back to plex again after a few years of legit streaming because the shows I watch are spread out across so many services that isn't not convenient at all.
I get you @vitobotta !
I thought about doing the same, but when I switched to docker, everything became 99% easier. I went from spending hours tinkering with things to just pulling docker images and getting everything up and running in minutes. If it breaks, I trash it and pull a new image.
Locking everything down behind CF and ditching Nextcloud for Seafile, made life a lot easier too. On the Plex side, I don't transcode anything so it barely uses any resources.
Passwords/vault are hosted, and of course, email is Google and @jar 's problem
Out of complete curiosity and horribly derailing the thread, @jar are you planning
to offer self hosted email solutions, with KVM and such, using you as another pipe
so to say, or is your service is "fully managed", i.e. I can read your emails if I wish to
I don't think it fits well if I don't manage, because I'd be null routing IPs like candy and telling customers to deal with stuff that they really don't know how to deal with. It's why I've been hesitant to tell people to just configure their big cpanel boxes to relay through me. Much easier to handle abuse when I manage the server, and I'm afraid that not handling abuse like I do would cross out my strongest market position.
For these little mailinabox systems people do it's not too much of an issue, but if someone packs it in with a few hundred customers they're far too likely to see me block all of their customers at once to halt one abuse case. Since they would get to choose whether or not to write headers that I can use for a targeted block, and several people do desire the removal of those headers (x-auth-user for example)
I haven't the time to read your email though. I'm lucky to get done everything I want to do in a day. Plus if I read it, and that's found out through a forensic audit, I can be held legally liable for it's contents.
I went through this last year, but I'm keeping an eye on Pikapods. @m4nu
Where does your disc pic collection come from?
No, don't get too philosophic about that, I'm well aware what it takes to open your IPs to "open outbound relay", if we can call it so.
Well, you might think it might be an option. After all, if you
But if you build your IP reputation well enough, and willing to on-board customers with personal boxes but some privacy concerns
are cheaper than getting a BuyVM 512M slice, and you only need 128MB for email and IPv4,
and your IP reputation is great...I don't see why there won't be a reason to offer it to a few customers first, as a pilot, and then really cherry pick the ones who never cause you trouble.
I might be one of them, but at this point it's not possible, so...
I'm talking about an entire /24 which sends less than 1k mails per day/IP, mostly transactional,
but they want their full MTA (My MTA is OpenSMTPd) with their own rules.
I guess we have to take it offline, going way off topic here.
That's all just you but I'm pretty sure a few of mine are in there too.
I also want to do managed dedicated servers but that's where you see the business plan break. A single shared server generates roughly $15k/year in revenue but I feel like an ass quoting anyone a number worth adding to the fleet. The people who could afford it, I feel like they'd deserve and demand a higher quality of front end.
Dafuq? They have TV shows with 8-year olds cooking gourmet. You should have been taught how to cook before you could grow hair on your balls at the latest.
You remind me when I slept over to a friend's house when I was 13 and his mom gave us money to go out for breakfast because she didn't want him to use the toaster.
I'd judge you harder not cooking at all than burning food up bad.
I've recently realized my temperature monitoring was lacking and causing significant throttling. The LSI monitoring is garbage and not great for production, IMO. I've added PCI fans and dropped temps on the RAID controller by 15-20*C. Trying premium TIM on the heatsink didn't do much but the fan really did. They're really expecting airplane engine sounding fans in closed rack servers for high air flow and don't do so well in consumer boxes.
I disabled video transcoding so cpu takes 0 load.
Today i am thinking about doing the opposite.
5 days and I miss it all already
Too much free time? 😂