Planning on moving my plex to the cloud along with my media to Google drive. I was thinking of upgrading my plan on UltraSeedBox to use plex and have my google drive hold the media. Anyone here have any experience with this? How many streams can it handle? etc
the performance of the cloud server i tested with is utterly terrible and unusable, even for a few adhoc clips and a handful of photo´s.
I would not even think about moving to the cloud based on what I have seen of plex cloud. If your going to spin up your own server in somebody elses cloud, aws or similar then maybe but plex cloud is unusable.
@MattTwinkleToes said:
the performance of the cloud server i tested with is utterly terrible and unusable, even for a few adhoc clips and a handful of photo´s.I would not even think about moving to the cloud based on what I have seen of plex cloud. If your going to spin up your own server in somebody elses cloud, aws or similar then maybe but plex cloud is unusable.
I don’t actually think he plans on using Plex cloud. More a Plex install on ultraseedbox with Google drive mounted.
yes ok, that is a possibility
@MattTwinkleToes said:
the performance of the cloud server i tested with is utterly terrible and unusable, even for a few adhoc clips and a handful of photo´s.I would not even think about moving to the cloud based on what I have seen of plex cloud. If your going to spin up your own server in somebody elses cloud, aws or similar then maybe but plex cloud is unusable.
For many of us Plex Cloud works brilliantly well. However a subset of users consistently have problems which points to some local issue with their Cloud storage location or file naming or ISP or peering/routing or WiFi performance. Unfortunately for those who have a bad experience troubleshooting is difficult & fixing the problem well nigh impossible.
If Plex Cloud works for you like it does for me then it’s fantastic but if it doesn’t then unfortunately you are SOL. However once you have all your media in the Cloud (I recommend unlimited storage on Google Drive with G Suite for Business at $10/month or equivalent in local currency) then it’s easy enough to rent a VPS to either use because Plex Cloud doesn’t work for you or as a backup in case of any hiccoughs with Plex Cloud. If your Plex client can Direct Play your media then a really low powered Linux Box for $2-3/month will suffice but if you are transcoding & you don’t want to get your hands dirty with Linux admin then a dedicated Plex platform/Seedbox from the like of Bytesized Hosting starting at €12/month for an AppBox +Unmetered makes the whole experience of running a Plex Server in the Cloud really easy.
@nigelpb said:
@MattTwinkleToes said:
the performance of the cloud server i tested with is utterly terrible and unusable, even for a few adhoc clips and a handful of photo´s.I would not even think about moving to the cloud based on what I have seen of plex cloud. If your going to spin up your own server in somebody elses cloud, aws or similar then maybe but plex cloud is unusable.
For many of us Plex Cloud works brilliantly well. However a subset of users consistently have problems which points to some local issue with their Cloud storage location or file naming or ISP or peering/routing or WiFi performance. Unfortunately for those who have a bad experience troubleshooting is difficult & fixing the problem well nigh impossible.If Plex Cloud works for you like it does for me then it’s fantastic but if it doesn’t then unfortunately you are SOL. However once you have all your media in the Cloud (I recommend unlimited storage on Google Drive with G Suite for Business at $10/month or equivalent in local currency) then it’s easy enough to rent a VPS to either use because Plex Cloud doesn’t work for you or as a backup in case of any hiccoughs with Plex Cloud. If your Plex client can Direct Play your media then a really low powered Linux Box for $2-3/month will suffice but if you are transcoding & you don’t want to get your hands dirty with Linux admin then a dedicated Plex platform/Seedbox from the like of Bytesized Hosting starting at €12/month for an AppBox +Unmetered makes the whole experience of running a Plex Server in the Cloud really easy.
It is unusable for me, i can playback a small file once but it will not always playback and often stops and wont start again.
I thought it would be a useful platform to share photos with family but that performs even worse, a photo will usually not load at all but sometime they do but then the server will freeze up.
Conversely, I have installed a standard plex server on a cloud machine in the Digital Ocean cloud which works fine so obviously, a cloud server is viable but just not the plex supplied cloud server.
As you say, trouble shooting is impossible with no access to the operating system. I am surprised and disappointed to learn that if works good for you as now i want one that works well, I sank money into google drive for more storage in anticipation!
Actually i just checked it again, the photos will not load at all, it just says ¨unable to load photo¨.
