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Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service

posted by chromas on Wednesday September 12 2018, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the did-they-find-the-silver-lining? dept.

CoolHand writes:

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, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:27AM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:27AM (#734051) Journal

    Alright. I have no idea who Plex is, or why I should care. A Fine Article should include those factors, at least. If you are an investor, or a follower-on, or some other way a shill for said Plex, you should publicly declare such. Otherwise, we Soylentils have no idea what you are talking about, or why we should care. Besides, "Cloud"? Putting my data in the hands of someone I only trust because of, why do I trust them, again? We could have had an aristarchus submission. I know this is tiresome, but if you keep foisting Fine Articles like this on us, the question becomes more relevant.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:31PM (#734189)
    As much as I like you man, I wish you'd post articles that didn't have dead links. I had a look at some of your submissions recently and just about all of them I saw were like that. All of them linking to 404s on otherwise reputable news sites. I think that wears the patience of the mods thin after a while.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:28PM (#734249)

    In other words, "I'm a moron on a tech site who whines he doesn't know about very popular tech."

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:54PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:54PM (#734494) Journal

      whines he doesn't know about very popular tech

      There is a word that better describes "popular tech": marketing. Perhaps if this "Plex" thing 3-D printed Bitcoin into the "Cloud", I would be more excited.