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So Hetzner is no good?
Pho3nix
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Cost?
Got my notice last night.
Think indeed to find 3 user's and do Dropbox ..? @cavedog what did you do ?
So, for now I'm just on the Real Debrid solution no other way.
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LW is bats**t expensive and they limit what you can host on their equipment or infrastructure. Could charge you Eur110 per 8tb hdd a month. So, you can do the math.
Cheapest option around is to buy your own HDDs and setup your own system from home.
They are? Maybe the high end machines but the low to medium end machines are well priced. In fact cheaper than Hetzner.
Hetzner is great but they are strict if you buy directly
I think that is too much. You can host that locally on a 1Gbps line for better performance and the hardware will be your own. It's that expensive because of the 10Gbit.
Strict as in torrents? Yeah it's a Germany company they don't like DMCA notices at all and they don't like open ports that can be exploited other than that they have some decent devices even the decent intel CPU's that support quick sync for plex. It's a pity they are 190ms+ away though but it's the same for Leaseweb.
If you want to be really fancy get your own server and throw it in a https://serverius.net/colocation/server-colocation/ dc in Amsterdam for cheap.
Where if I may ask?
Yeah
That is definitely something to consider
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Nonetheless, at the end of the day, storing media in the cloud is impractical, expensive and not allowed anywhere in the world. Not even in countries like Russia or China unless you are politically connected. So, in terms of media, I have learnt, the best is to buy hard drives and keep the media stored on them in your own house.
As for personal files, backups, etc., since I am making extensively use of Gmail (both for business and personal emails) and other Google products like Google Maps, etc., the best is to take a $20 GSuite Enterprise package with them, which gives you 5TB storage in the cloud and you are settled. Very few people will ever make use of 5TB storage in any event for personal files. $20 a month is manageable and reasonable for what you get in any event.
Buying or renting dedicated servers just for backup for your media and personal files are both risky and crazy expensive. This does not make financial sense in any event.
As for personal files, backups, etc., since I am making extensively use of Gmail (both for business and personal emails) and other Google products like Google Maps, etc., the best is to take a $20 GSuite Enterprise package with them, which gives you 5TB storage in the cloud and you are settled. Very few people will ever make use of 5TB storage in any event for personal files. $20 a month is manageable and reasonable for what you get in any event.
Buying or renting dedicated servers just for backup for your media and personal files are both risky and crazy expensive. This does not make financial sense in any event.
Romania doesn't care
Anyway, this is split between a fairly large group so economies of scale make it a couple euros/pm per person, and the group is international so hosting locally with terrible latency and pretty much every ISP using bad transit/peering here doesn't make sense.
It's behind bunnycdn (in a way...) so whether youre in australia or east coast USA the group members get excellent performance out of the box
everyone's use case is different
Yeah so, this solution locally hosted works the best for me.
2 x realdebrid accounts to split the load of scanning and directory depth. Locally hosted Plex on a mini server I built with an 7th gen i3 so it has quick sync. jnb1.download.real-debrid.com is only 2ms away on my line so a 1Gbps line does the trick. I only got 16 people on my plex and of them only 8 are active and 5 are on Afrihost.
Could you share a guide on how to do this?
I will write up something.
I have 2 realdebrid accounts.
I mount them with this rclone fork using the RealDebrid API. GitHub - itsToggle/rclone_RD: RClone Fork that implements RealDebrid
So for faster scanning and to reduce the api hits to RealDebrid I use 2 account. 1st account is for HD Movies and 4k Shows and the other account is for 4K Movies and HD Shows. This balances it out a bit and splits the api calls between the 2.
Mounting both at /home/cavedog/realdebrid/rd1 and /home/cavedog/realdebrid/rd2. and thios forks sorts movies and shows into 2 different folders which are nice. I use the rclone filers to --include **2160p** and --exclude **2160p**
Now it's just a matter of setting up the libraries in plex to pull for these folders correctly which is pretty easy.
Content is the biggest issue especially now that RARBG is no more. TorrentGalaxy is the best but GalaxyFence blocks your IP very fast when you excessively call the API and hits you with a captcha.
So I use a bunch of ways to get the content. 1. Plex-debrid 2. Sonarr/Radarr 3. Manual
1. Plex_debrid is a python tool that works well GitHub - itsToggle/plex_debrid: Plex torrent streaming through Debrid Services. but it's not perfect. With Overseerr for requests so everyone can request in overseerr but I have overseerr set to monitor plex users watch list to auto request those shows.
2. Arr works but the limitation being it can't keep monitoring series and it doesn't know what fails. I set it up to dump .torrent and .magnet files in a watch folder and with RDTClient it takes those files and sends it to RealDebrid without downloading them
3. Manual is the best way to get decent packs and remux releases from Torrent Galaxy. On my local machine I also run rdtclient to dump them there or just use a browser addon to send it directly to realdebrid and just trigger a manual scan in plex.
I host this locally on a dedicated 400/400 MetroFibre line on a mini server in my apartment. Everyone can stream from it without any issues.
Limitations:
No Arr monitoring for failed download. RealDebrid storage meaning if they delete it's gone or you need to re-download the torrent on Realdebrid. Infringing torrents fail to add. Some manual process to get the most content on plex.
Advantages:
Only 4 Euro a month per sub or 16 per 6 months. 32 connections per account so adding more accounts creates more connections. Local JHB server only 2ms away. Practically unlimited storage as you can now have 10 versions of each file without having to stress about storage. Streams pretty fast directly from Realdebrid no api limits like gdrive.
Thank you!
Have you found a way to set this up on oracle server that we have?
Yes everything works exactly the same way on the free Oracle server.
Sounds interesting. Been a Jellyfin user mostly. See there is option for Jellyfin, have you ever tried it before or you strictly Plex?