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Media streaming service Plex is shutting down its cloud service at the end of November. The company is making the move because of technical issues and cost concerns. Once support ends, you'll have to stream media from your own server, computer or Network Attached Storage to your connected devices instead of your favored cloud storage service.
"We've made the difficult decision to shut down the Plex Cloud service on November 30th, 2018," Plex said on its support page. "As you may know, we haven't allowed any new Plex Cloud servers since February of this year, and since then we've been actively working on ways to address various issues while keeping costs under control. We hold ourselves to a high standard, and unfortunately, after a lot of investigation and thought, we haven't found a solution capable of delivering a truly first class Plex experience to Plex Cloud users at a reasonable cost."
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(Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:29AM (1 child)
But only because I run my own server at home. It's super convenient, there are apps for all the smaller devices with local sync options if you're going off-grid for a while.
I never understood the cloud thing, it's so trivial to just run the software at home....
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:45PM
If your ISP bills you by the bit for use of its last mile to your home, you might want to lease a server from someone who charges less per bit. If your ISP assigns subscribers a non-routable IP address [wikipedia.org] in the RFC 6598 block [ietf.org] unless they pay substantially more per month, you might want to lease a server that accepts incoming connections.