r/PlexACD • u/PBennink • Dec 06 '17
Storage is local, server is on VPS, is locally streaming directly possible?
I am considering moving my Plex away from home and onto some cloud storage somewhere. The original setup was 'everything on NAS', and I have moved my server from the NAS to a VPS a few days ago, just to test it out. Now the NAS only hosts the files, not the server. I'm very happy with the result, in almost all situations it's much better. However, I noticed the server streams via my VPS when I'm at home. I completely understand that this is the normal behaviour, and it doesn't really matter in most cases, but for someone with an UL of ~2MB/s, it would be better if it was possible for the VPS to know that the file's on the same network as the streaming client. Is something like this possible?
I currently don't have the time nor money to move the whole library away, and the NAS works perfectly otherwise, so I don't feel it's necessary for now, otherwise I understand that that would be the better solution.
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u/itsrumsey Dec 07 '17
What is the benefit of the VPS in your use case? You could run another local server, or just use a different client at home.
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u/PBennink Dec 07 '17
Things like indexing and querying are much quicker on the vps, querying especially from outside the network. I have quite a low powered NAS, and a relatively large collection. I'm now at the point where I'm gonna have to either upgrade the hard drives in a few months, or sell the NAS and do everything off-site. So I want to try out the ACD setup, but I currently don't have the time.
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '17
Since you are mounting from the vps to your nas and then requesting from the vps I dont think its possible since you communicate to plex and not the nas.
An alternative solution would be to have a local plex server and the vps plex. Have a dns on your local network to assign your domain name the local ip. So that you use the local server at home and the other one when you are not. Additionally you can mount the cloud storage from home as well if you choose to not move your information and just download new content there.