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Providers that don't mind Plex Servers?
CoastHosting
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Hi There,
Is there any providers out there that have an option of vps with unmetered bandwidth 100mbps okay with resonable hard drive space for plex?
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Location?
West Coast if Possible on Dallas
United States
but Europe okay too
Delimiter has a LOT of plex users.
How much bandwidth do you really need?
no more then a TB
also windows preferably
I meant to ask how much disk space you need and your budget.
This maybe interesting, we've seen quite a number of customers using Plex on this:
http://www.delimiter.com/landingpage/slothosting/
There is this which has more CPU, but I think disk maybe too lean:
1 X5650 Core, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, 1TB BW $6.50/mo https://clients.delimitervps.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=176
Or a low cost dedicated server:
http://www.delimitervps.com/landingpage/servers2015/?p=X515016500
@davenz
VaporNode could offer you a reliable VPS in Phoenix, AZ, USA. There is no problem if you decide to use it for Plex. Take a look at our plans here: https://vapornode.com/vps
You can use the coupon code DSD15 for a 15% recurring discount.
I could throw in some additional disk space and bandwidth for free too if you email [email protected] with your request.
okay i figure i need 1TB of storage space and unmetered bandwidth with 4 cores and providers out there? and can use ubuntu
@davenz Are you transcoding? If you're just going to be direct streaming, no provider is going to be concerned as the CPU usage is minimal.
Seems running plex and to a lesser extent emby on remote servers is starting to become popular.
Makes sense really I guess given the number of devices people now want to access media on and the fact that you may not always be home when you access the media.
I would have thought the only objections most hosts would have would be either CPU usage if you're on a VPS and if you were stupid enough to leave the server wide open.
Lets face it even if technically against TOS most providers won't actually care unless they're getting complaints.
I'd say most of the stuff in the TOS/AUP in most of these contracts a complete load of rubbish and is simply there to give them the legal basis to boot you if you cause a problem for them all the time you're not causing a problem it often gets overlooked.
Now if only the servers/clients could handle adaptive streaming like netflix/amazon.etc seem to manage (Even if it did mean pre-transcoding stuff)
Plex seems to want to always transcode so yes cpu is important though i only need 500gb space now
You can turn that off, in which case you don't really need a powerful cpu.
@time4vps maybe
We specialise in it : https://zxplay.co.uk
Total dedicated KVM resources
@ashleyUK can you PM a trial?
What locations and what are extra IP prices?
Our core location is Germany (Global Switch) where we run our own HP hardware, however we do have a small setup out of OVH CA however.
Extra IP depends on how many extra you required, could give a 2nd for free with valid for reason, more would be subject to how many required.
I was debating to throw a Plex server on one of those "low end" online.net / Kimsufi servers.
I ended up dropping a good monthly budget on a dedicated server which can burst 1Gbps but 500Mbps guarantee solely for Plex. All my friends are happy.
Step up @dacentec or @MarkTurner
We can offer this but on Linux. A lot cheaper than other though. Contact us at http://w3hostingservices.com/submitticket.php if you are interested and we can give you a quote.
We can do it on our KVM range in Los Angeles. View our last deal at http://krkn.pw/qcn2015 to get 50% off on any KVM plans.
Regards, David
E3-1240 with 16GB of RAM has worked so far for me with as many drives in RAID5 and get 5 active people streaming at one time with no issue. Looking at my Observium graphs over the past month, CPU never went past 40% which could had been a SFTP transfer eating up CPU