# Online hosting

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556 "2020-06-23T08:48:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenyanscott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@kenyanscott](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kenyanscott)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/1 "2020-06-23T08:48:57Z")

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Hi guys

First time poster so go easy on me!

I just got a Nintendo switch for my son which supports plex.

I have onedrive storage and I was wondering if it’s possible to upload movies etc there and then stream to plex? It saves me needing to buy a NAS.

Is this possible at all?

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**Author:** ![Coxeroni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/coxeroni/32/21481_2.png) [@Coxeroni](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Coxeroni)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/2 "2020-06-23T09:06:54Z")

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You still need a Plex server somewhere which can access the one drive storage somehow.

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**Author:** ![kenyanscott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@kenyanscott](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kenyanscott)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/3 "2020-06-23T10:00:53Z")

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So if. I’m understanding you correctly - I need hardware somewhere which is always on. ?

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**Author:** ![Coxeroni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/coxeroni/32/21481_2.png) [@Coxeroni](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Coxeroni)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/4 "2020-06-23T10:09:13Z")

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Yes you do.

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**Author:** ![CostaHT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/costaht/32/193414_2.png) [@CostaHT](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CostaHT)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/5 "2020-06-23T15:14:24Z")

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> [@kenyanscott](#):
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> I need hardware somewhere which is always on. ?

That’s because the app you have installed on your Nintendo Switch is a Plex **Player**. You will need a Plex Server for your player connect to and your server would mount your OneDrive.

```auto
                   +---------+ XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
                   | | XXXXXX XXXX
    +----------+ | | XX XX
    | | | | X One Drive X
    | Nintendo | | Plex | X X
    | Switch +-->+ Server +--------+X X XXX XX
    | Plex | | | XX XXXX XX XXXXX
    | Player | | | XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
    +----------+ | |
                   +---------+

```

Although, I’m not sure if you can stream from OneDrive, I know you can do that using Google Drive + third party apps.  
If you will not run H.265 or 4k movies, you can use a Raspiberry pi as a server.

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**Author:** ![Coxeroni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/coxeroni/32/21481_2.png) [@Coxeroni](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Coxeroni)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/6 "2020-06-23T18:06:56Z")

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> [@CostaHT](#):
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> Although, I’m not sure if you can stream from OneDrive

Obviously you can:

> **[Microsoft OneDrive](https://rclone.org/onedrive/)**
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> Rclone docs for Microsoft OneDrive

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**Author:** ![CostaHT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/costaht/32/193414_2.png) [@CostaHT](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CostaHT)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/7 "2020-06-23T18:22:23Z")

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That’s why I said that I’m not sure.

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**Author:** ![Coxeroni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/coxeroni/32/21481_2.png) [@Coxeroni](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Coxeroni)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/8 "2020-06-23T18:22:57Z")

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No offence, I didn’t know either until I googled it 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/online-hosting/606556/9 "2020-09-21T18:25:23Z")

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