First of all, I’d like to thank Plex for providing the Cloud service. I’m sure it will be a great asset for many, and the fact it’s included in the Plex Pass is beyond awesome. I’m also grateful to have been part of the beta, that was so much fun!
However, there are a few reasons why we won’t be using the cloud after all, except as a backup service.
A short history: in 2014 we became really serious in using Plex. I converted all our media to digital format and we bought a Windows PC to use as a dedicated HTPC. It works well enough, but there are a few drawbacks. Plex cannot wake the computer using WOL, so we always had to use another app to wake up the computer, since it’s only the two of us and we don’t want to run it 24/7. As the years went by, our movie/TV collection only grew. We already had a 2TB drive, added a 4TB one, and then another 4TB. Total of 10TB and even that is starting to burst at the seams. With no more room for another drive - so we’d have to either replace one of them for an 8TB drive, or buy a NAS and yet another HD. Which means spending $$$ either way.
Just when we had to start facing that decision, along came Plex Cloud - AND an offer from our ISP for unlimited 150Mbps up and downstream. It was the answer to all our wishes, seemingly. Unlimited storage for $60/year with Amazon and no hassle of maintaining a server! Well, we all knew what happened to ACD support - so I bought 2 unlimited Google Drive accounts on eBay to supplement our ACD subscription. All accounts are still going strong, I’m happy to say, but of course we had to be prepared to lose them at any moment in time.
Fast forward to last week. The cloud had long been reduced to “oh yes, let’s test to see if things have improved yet”, because for daily use it was way too wonky. Refusing to start more often than not, severe buffering and unable to play any bluray MKV file, we figured it would be less of a PITA to go back to DVD than continue to use the cloud. But ah well, it’s beta, it will improve… until to my tremendous surprise it suddenly was out of beta altogether. I quickly tested a few troublesome movies, with no improvement whatsoever, buffering is as bad as always.
In the meantime, thanks to you guys I learned how to set up Plex with a VPS service and a mounted ACD drive through rclone. I was absolutely shocked how smooth it worked even on a bare bone single core with 256MB RAM! Not only that, but all the bells and whistles of a home server are available, including trakt.tv and other plugins, offline sync, and a connection to any 3rd party cloud storage we’d want.
When it was announced that cloud is now out of beta, we decided it doesn’t work well enough for our needs. We bit the bullet and purchased a VPS service from SSDNodes, who currently has a special offer of 4 cores, 8GB RAM, 40GB SSD and 4TB data transfer for less than $80/year. Combined with the $60 for ACD, that means we only need to pay less than $2/month more than for Gsuite alone, and we have complete freedom over our server in any way we like.
Anyway I know it’s a long story, but hopefully it’ll help some to make an informed decision - provided you are not afraid to get your hands dirty with some very unintuitive command typing in Putty 
I hear you, I can’t believe the number of “unlimited Gdrive with less than 5 users” discussions - sometimes I feel like I’m part of a zombie movie in which they just keep coming and coming without ever changing their tune >:)
HTPC is our local machine in sleep mode, cloud seems in sleep mode as well and the VPS is up and running 
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