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VPS for Plex (Europe, Fuse enabled to mount cloud storage, 1080p transcoding)
Hi, I would like a VPS for Plex. The requirements:
- To be located in Europe
- To be able to transcode 1 1080p file (my files have a maximum bitrate of 20 Mbps) at time without any problem
- To have Fuse enabled in order to mount a cloud storage with rclone or plexdrive
- To be able to stream with Plex without bandwidht problem or peering problem, my files don't have very high bitrate
Cheaper is better. What's the provider that can fullfill my requirements for the CHEAPEST price? Less than 10 €/month would be fine.
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Whay not plex pass with plex cloud?
Could do the following at The Netherlands,
2 GB RAM
30 GB SSD
4 core fair-share access include (Dual E5-2670 CPU)
1 Snapshot (User can restore/create/destroy snapshot from the panel)
KVM based
2 TB bandwidth per month
1 Gbit/sec upink
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
$5/month or $25/semi-annually
https://crowncloud.net/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=279
I tried it once, they have a severe problem with subtitles.
Plex cloud is terrible. Incredibly long scan times, buffering constantly, etc.
@P_E_E_G you'll need a VPS with at least a 2000 passmark score. So at least one dedicated e3 core or two e5 cores. Maybe try netcup since they are cheap and allow you to max out your CPU usage. Not sure if they have fuse enabled.
@P_E_E_G VPSes aren't usually suitable for this use. Plex transcoding eats up CPU like there's no tomorrow. Hosting companies don't want people chomping through CPU, so I'd suggest something in the scope of a Kimsufi.
Go for something above a KS-2A.
These were post-beta?
what is requirement of CPU for 1080p ?
Why not? If you have dedicated CPU cores, it should be fine.
@P_E_E_G
Use a root server from Netcup.
https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1769
They come with two dedicated Intel® Xeon® E5-2680V4 cores, 6 GB of RAM, and unlimited bandwidth (1Gbit up to 10TB unrestricted, thereafter 80Mbit/s sustained but anything over for an hour and they can limit you), KVM, and 320GB SAS storage.
This, this will completely outspec a crappy Atom dedicated.
well , I happened to have netcup VPS, how do I determinate that FUSE is enabled ?
Try to use rclone to mount a cloud drive and you'll know by if it's successful or not.
Do you have a regular VPS or a root server?
Regular VPS servers are OpenVZ, so you need to contact Netcup to enable it presumably.
Root servers are KVM, where you can just log on and enable fuse.
I have it, but it has a lot of problems. Plex Cloud works only with Direct Play, their servers can't handle transcoding properly so there is constant buffering with either direct stream either transcoding.
Yes, I was thinking about netcup. But do they have support in English? What about their 8 € VPS? For me fuse is a killer application.
Will you please check that and share? Thank you.
Yup, a few months ago. I hadn't any problem with buffering through.
I just emailed the netcup support. Their VPS DOES NOT SUPPORT Fuse.
Now... on a dedicated server how do you enable Fuse manually? I know how to download Fuse but I don't know how to enable it, with VPSs you open a ticket and providers enable it.
Do you support Fuse?
@P_E_E_G
Their root servers do, though.
If you're using a KVM VPS, the same instructions apply for enabling fuse as on a dedicated server.
For the last VPS the provider enabled Fuse for me. Is there a phase-by-phase tutorial?
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all netcup servers are KVM so you can use your OS of choice with all kernel features including fuse independently...
grab the offer mentioned above even cheaper here: https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1553 and feel free to grab a 5€ coupon from my sig for first signup
but since Root Servers are KVM , I guess you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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This. their vservers are kvm too...
https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse
That took me 30 seconds to Google.
Yes, fuse support is available on these. The VPS offer I posted is a KVM based so you can run your own kernel/newer kernel as well if needed.
They are?
Yes they are. Afaik they switched away from ovz/virtuozzo more then 12 months ago. I admit expecially their english pages often are somewhat grandfathered.
Just have a look at any detail page, the virtualization is mentioned in the first row of the details-table...
I have some of their products even from the smaller vserver range, rest asured it's all KVM.
The smaller vservers aren't even limited to 100 Mbit anymore as it still says in the details, but SSSHHHH ;-)
(I can post some benchmarks later if you like)
what happened to the plans for a LET group PLEX server?
Nobody could make up their minds what to do.
@Falzo
Hell yeah! It's getting even more tempting to buy one now
Most people just use mine now.
Wait... I've emailed them about the VPS, they said:
''Hi,
Thank you for your email.
Fuse-Device for our virtual servers is not supported.
Best regards,
Gabriel Horincar
netcup Team''
I've already read that, but I am a bit confused, which of the versions of libfuse should I download: fuse-3.1.0.tar.gz fuse-3.1.0.tar.gz.asc Source code (zip) or Source code (tar.gz). That guide is not very user friendly, it assumes that you know what Meson and Ninja are... I don't... are they something that I need to install before libfuse? And.. ''Running the tests requires the py.test Python module. Instead of running the tests as root, the majority of tests can also be run as a regular user if util/fusermount3 is made setuid root first:'' it also assumes that you know what py.test is, something that I need to download before? There are some other software requirements to fullfill before the installation of libfuse and these are not explained in that guide.
Well find out then. You're making zero effort to help yourself, so I'll be fucked if I'm giving you anything more.
And the latency from AU isn't dreadful?