Media streaming platform Plex has announced it will discontinue its personal cloud streaming service.<\/p>\n
The Plex Cloud service will shut down on 30 November 2018, according to the service’s support page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Plex launched the service in 2016, allowing users to stream media from cloud platforms using Google Drive, Amazon Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive.<\/p>\n The company previously encountered technical challenges around integrating these cloud services in its platform, and has been working to address problems with performance.<\/p>\n Plex disabled server creation for new Plex cloud users earlier this year, and has now confirmed it cannot deliver a high-quality experience to Plex Cloud users at a reasonable cost.<\/p>\n “We hold ourselves to a high standard, and unfortunately, after a lot of investigation and thought, we haven\u2019t found a solution capable of delivering a truly first-class Plex experience to Plex Cloud users at a reasonable cost,” it said.<\/p>\n The company encourages users to set up a Plex Media Server on their local network instead.<\/p>\n Media streaming platform Plex will discontinue its personal cloud streaming service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":230635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51237,53797,31376],"class_list":["post-275109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-cloud-platform","tag-media-streaming","tag-plex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275137,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275109\/revisions\/275137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0WhatsApp confirms Google Drive backups are not protected by encryption<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"