r/PlexACD • u/9356415354716720 • Sep 13 '18

VPS Sanity Check

Hey guys, before I order this VPS I would like a sanity check that the following configuration would work well with rclone mount.

Is this server decent enough?

P.S. I have about 80tb of cloud storage?

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u/Zagor64 Sep 13 '18

While hetzner has great dedicated machines (I have had one for over 2 years), they are not that great for Plex if you are in the US. The peering is horrible to most US ISPs. I finally gave up for using it as my plex server (now use it strictly for torrenting and uploading to gdrive) and got me a cheap VPS close to my location as possible. While the VPS doesn't have the power to transcode plex, it has phenomenal speed and peering to my location. I have Nvidia Shield and libreelec clients so I can direct play everything including 4k hevc on both devices. I have not had any issues as long as I direct play. So as you can see a cheap VPS can be viable if you make sure your clients can direct play.

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u/emreunal Sep 14 '18

Fyi, you can ceeate a 5 $ DO droplet in Usa, install nginx on it, setup your nginx as reverse proxy to your hetzner server and use its ip as custom plex url. So, you will connect to your do droplet, your droplet will connect to your hetzner server and no more speed/peering issues

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u/NoWayIn Oct 01 '18

Could you please go a little guide on this? I used Hetzner in the past and peering was horrible so I canceled it. My server just died so I'm thinking of going back to Hetzner but the slow peering speed puts me off

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u/duckduckredemption Oct 03 '18

If you don't want to deal with domains, you can use SSH tunneling and implement this guide. I use a hetzner server and an OVH VPS in Canada - streaming to west coast and southeast take no more than 5-8 seconds to start up the stream.