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Hetzner https://www.hetzner.de/gb/hosting/storagebox/bx60
Thanks, had a look there. Looking for a bit more space.
Even things like amazon unlimited drive or blazeback
then go for backblaze
Bandwidth/Latency will play a part in this as well, no good having 10TB+ of cloud storage if you can't read back from it quick enough to ensure smooth playback.
Plex + Amazon unlimited cloud is best bet
I am using this too as I rebuild my local raid and it works quite well.
Any tips/suggestions? I've tried this solution using ACD_CLI and mounting ACD as a directory. I've found that copying / streaming play back is just dog slow that it keeps buffering every 30 seconds or so. I've tried both encrypted and unencrypted MKV files.
and what about price?
Its normally $60/yr, I got a year for $10 when they had some promo. I've read of people getting 1 year free and then 1 year at $10 after.
I got asked how my setup is in a PM.
On my plex box I just have acd_cli mount on reboot.
@reboot /usr/local/bin/acd_cli mount --modules="subdir,subdir=/DataBackup/movies" /data/movies @reboot /usr/local/bin/acd_cli mount --modules="subdir,subdir=/DataBackup/tv" /data/tv @reboot /usr/local/bin/acd_cli mount --modules="subdir,subdir=/DataBackup/anime" /data/animeNothing fancy. I have another download box that has similar mounts, and I use rclone by hand for some things. Because of this I've had issues with acd_cli updating to see the new files. I run
acd_cli syncand then reboot (ugly, but its a temporary solution for me).I have 10TB stored on ACD, and I pushed 10TB over a month and pulled 15TB or so in a similar time frame.
thanks, and the price is for how many GB?
@HackedServer: Thanks for the info!
It looks like this week some people got sharing disabled in Amazon Cloud Drive. Most of them were using Plex and ACD as storage backend. There is a thread in reddit about it.
I don't think it is safe to use it for media storage until it is clear how people are targetted.
Not really suprising. People really started to abuse Amazon Cloud Drive after that unlimited offer.
Quite a few streaming websites currently use ACD to serve their illegal movies.
Funny how Amazon didn't see this coming. Microsoft went for the same marketing move years ago and got a huge backslash after trimming their offer back to a reasonable level.
I dont know if I would call 5GB reasonable.
The issue with the "unlimited" storage plans is that they never come with limitations that are clear to us. It must be a sales tacktic to get a ton of people to sign up to yearly plans in the early months and then start throttling connections and enforcement of "Fair Use"
Not as bad as when Bitcasa said, basically, "we're discontinuing unlimited plans in a week and you've got that amount of time to download terabytes of your data at 1 megabyte/sec. Good luck!".
that's at VERY BEST. it's typically less than half that.
Tried uploading data to Amazon cloud drive with my hetzner dedicated server with a 1gbit connection. I stopped after an hour.
Because file transfer was about 50mbit, peaking at 85%.
CPU at 8%, peaking at 11%.
I checked if the hetzner connection was the limit, but during transfer I could download at my full 150mbit to my home.
So I won't be using ACD for now. Thanks anyways.