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Looking for Hetzner EX44 alternative
I have a Hetzer EX44 box, which works perfectly. However, i am looking for a hosting provider that is not blocked by Plex.
Specs should match or be better than:
- CPU: i5-13500 (iGPU for transcoding)
- RAM: 64 GB DDR4
- Storage: 512 GB NVMe
- Storage: 16TB Enterprise HDD
- Traffic: 1 GBit/s Unlimited
- Region: Europe, preferably UK
Comments
keep using hetzner. find a different provider and proxy your way there. find someone with certified unmetered(not fair use BS like famesystems) or more preferrably, someone with defined bandwidth limit(80TB-100TB) and go from there. getting a whole new dedi for similar price is gonna be hard for you.
That said, if you are willing to let go of iGPU, I'd say combine @labze's TURIN lineup with his storagebox and you can fully replace this box for cheap. That said, it is quite hectic to setup and some major consideration cuz his TURIN vps and hdd boxes are from 2 different DCs so internal file moves may cost bandwidth(b/w SSD caching from ur VPS to storage box, etc).
Thank you. I did setup a proxy via a VPS using Tailscale and an exit node a while ago, but it just felt super fragile to manage etc. Maybe i should just give that another go and see how it feels.
I think i would struggle to give up GPU. I really like the flexibility it provides, especially if i am watching from somewhere with terrible internet etc.
Can you explain a little bit more about your setup's fragility? Maybe I could help.
PS: I have experience setting up Jellyfin with Cloudflare Zero Trust which I heard is similar to that of Tailscale.
I guess it's just a lot more moving parts, with more to go wrong. I don't want to have to be fixing stuff, and the more moving parts there are, the more likely that is to have to happen.
True but you've only added an additional layer. Consider this:
Are you willing to pay 20-30 euros more for an equivalent server(providers here will rarely match Hetzner's offerings, let alone your iGPU that comes with that particular lineup which even if they have, will be ATLEAST 20-30 euros more because mArKuP.) for the same specs or just have one step covering your IP?
Honestly, after one time setup, the only thing I could see going wrong would be if you somehow enabled firewall that all incoming tailscale requests are being blocked(which is rare if you do plug-and-forget model) or if tailscale itself is down.. both of these are rare circumstances.
That is all true. I will give it another go sometime soon and see how it feels. Thanks!
It's so stupid that Plex has blocked them. I get it, because people sell Plex servers etc, but for normal people it's very annoying.