# European servers
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919 "2019-03-27T23:53:38Z")
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### Author:  [@new\_plex\_user](https://forums.plex.tv/u/new_plex_user)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919/1 "2019-03-27T23:53:38Z")
I recently added block rules for all inbound and outbound traffic from my network to anywhere outside the US.
Plex immediately broke.
So did the [support.plex.tv](http://support.plex.tv) and [forums.plex.tv](http://forums.plex.tv). [support.plex.tv](http://support.plex.tv) would show text, but no formatting, fonts, pictures, bacgrounds, etc., would load.
Some of the sites that were attempted to access by plex were blahblabh.eu.amazon something or other, and a few other sites which would resolve with various hostnames but not anything that would specifically indicate location on the globe.
I turned off the firewall rules and plex immediately started working again.
Why is plex accessing servers outside of the US, and are they specific enough that I can put in allow rules for them, or will they be rotating and/or randomly assigned and therefore I will forever be chasing my tail?
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### Author:  [@dane22](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dane22)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919/2 "2019-03-27T23:59:46Z")
> [@new\_plex\_user](#):
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> Why is plex accessing servers outside of the US, and are they specific enough that I can put in allow rules for them, or will they be rotating and/or randomly assigned and therefore I will forever be chasing my tail?
First of all, not everything outside US is bad, in fact sometimes even better 😉
Secondly, Plex has their servers hosted in the cloud, use [CDN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network), and their cloud provider moves stuff around based on workload, maintenance etc.
And lastly, what made you think that Plex was a US only company?
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### Author:  [@new\_plex\_user](https://forums.plex.tv/u/new_plex_user)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919/3 "2019-03-28T00:21:25Z")
Ireland and UK are the two location that are being accessed and blocked. I’ve added them to my allow list. We’ll see what else happens.
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### Author:  [@new\_plex\_user](https://forums.plex.tv/u/new_plex_user)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919/4 "2019-03-28T00:31:07Z")
Germany too now. I guess I will be watching the network for a few days and adding a ton of IPs to the exceptions list.
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### Author:  [@CapMarkoRamius](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CapMarkoRamius)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919/5 "2019-03-28T18:56:26Z")
Plex uses the Amazon cloud for their services I believe. Like authentication, updates, etc… Amazon is probably load balancing if I had to guess. Why are you so against the _World_ wide web?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/european-servers/392919/6 "2019-06-26T18:56:34Z")
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