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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: 1) by iru on Thursday September 13 2018, @08:23AM (1 child)
I've been using a mix of Emby (which is a fork of Plex) and Kodi. They work well together and it allows me to benefit from the kodi interface and its plugins and Emby's remote access. I've switched to Emby because they do not force you to go to their site to use a service that is installed on your own computer and they also allow you to bring your own ffmpeg so features like hardware assisted decoding are not locked behind a paywall. They do have their paid features but none of those interest me now.
I'm happy with my setup but I don't like the idea of having a power hungry server eating my bill so I'm experimenting with some stuff. I think I might code some kind of simple HTTP/HTTPS reverse proxy that has the ability to wake the server through wake on lan and shut it down some minutes after the last connection closed. I haven't found a non-hacky way of doing this.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Friday September 14 2018, @02:06AM
Nice idea. My server probably does contribute a non-trivial amount to my electric bill. I run a few simple home web services off of it, but I'm already renting a Linode server for $10/month so I could move them there.