yeah they made it useless with the throttling, it was good for 1 month and useless
@Qlogic said:
yeah they made it useless with the throttling, it was good for 1 month and useless
I’m still within the 14 days at least, so it looks like I may end up going with the VPS SSD 3 plan with OVH, but want to first find out more about them.
yeah its a but more than i wanted to spend, i tried vultr they were good for a while too
I haven’t found a stable one at a good price, so i have moved back to my own server, I changed back to my old FTTH ISP so i have plenty of upload speed. I just loved the convenience of the VPS and less work on my server
I am also currently trialing a SSDnodes VPS. I haven’t noticed any throttling of my server or playback issues but I thought I would reach out to their Founder and CEO Matt Connor for comment. I sent him a link to this thread (which he couldn’t open). His response.
"Hey Jude,
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I looked at your server’s usage and it’s well below the threshold of triggering any kind of throttling. You should be completely fine, more than 99% of clients will never reach that threshold.
Unfortunately, I don’t have access to view the pages. I believe it requires a subscription to Plex (which is something I don’t have).
Plex is actually one of the most demanding applications on our systems, so it would make sense that we’d be seeing these comments clustered in the same place. The problem is the way Plex and FUSE work, they impose a very heavy CPU and disk IO load on our systems. Combining that with heavy CPU usage from transcoding, it makes sense why the throttling would be triggered to protect our other customers.
The throttling in general affects less than 1% of customers, all the details are explained here: https://www.ssdnodes.com/manage/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=13
We also explained it at the bottom of our pricing page FAQ here: https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/
Feel free to copy/paste this email and post it on the forums. Any Plex user can send me an email at matt@strasmore.com or open a ticket so we can help them. We have also seen bugs in user’s configurations that caused suboptimal performance, so we can assist with tracking those down as well."
That is one thing I like about SSD, they seem open and honest. That said I did have some problems in the last few weeks. I was actually traveling and came back yesterday, so it’s hard to say whether it was SSD Nodes or just the fact I was using other (slower) WiFi connections… but today I tried to watch something at home and there was no buffering at all.
I don’t think I am actively throttled… I am not “blaming” SSD (yet) and won’t assume it’s them, I think it’s more a combination of a wonky Plex update (my buffering started with the latest update, though that could be a coincidence as well of course) and Rclone which seems to be more demanding lately as well.
@per_PLEX_ed said:
That is one thing I like about SSD, they seem open and honest. That said I did have some problems in the last few weeks. I was actually traveling and came back yesterday, so it’s hard to say whether it was SSD Nodes or just the fact I was using other (slower) WiFi connections… but today I tried to watch something at home and there was no buffering at all.I don’t think I am actively throttled… I am not “blaming” SSD (yet) and won’t assume it’s them, I think it’s more a combination of a wonky Plex update (my buffering started with the latest update, though that could be a coincidence as well of course) and Rclone which seems to be more demanding lately as well.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say it’s an intentional thing, and their support is just amazing with quick responses and ideas to help, but I’m not sure if their service is right for Plex’s transcoding.
@per_PLEX_ed Thanks for your input.
okay, new VPS… and get an GSuite bann… now the 3rd day an the ban don´t goes away… Plex ist don´t work to prevent an bann…
@blim5001 said:
@hthighway I have been playing with plexdrive and it seems pretty good, at least for playback.
I had been scanning a different mount and then switching to a plexdrive mount for playback.I have now taken a gamble and am running a scan on plexdrive, so now waiting to see if I get hit by google’s ban hammer
Certainly the api usage is very low, its just the way google see’s the plex scanner as a lot of downloads that could cause issues. If anything, I think this is what could cause the ban hammer to fall.So we will see what happens…
In my usage, it’s been excellent so far. Plex has been able to scan a complete library, do deep analysis, and do auto library scans all against PlexDrive and not incur any GDrive Bans. On my current remote box playback starts are pretty instantaneous (1-3 seconds)
Scans of both my TV Shows and Movies went without getting a ban. Playback was pretty awesome.
But then I got a bit too ambitious and tried to encrypt all the unencrypted content in my gdrive… with a google compute instance and bang down came the hammer 
Hopefully it will only last 24 hours…
@blim5001 said:
Scans of both my TV Shows and Movies went without getting a ban. Playback was pretty awesome.But then I got a bit too ambitious and tried to encrypt all the unencrypted content in my gdrive… with a google compute instance and bang down came the hammer
Hopefully it will only last 24 hours…
If you set --bwlimit 50M you can avoid the ban on large transfers like that.
@hthighway thanks for the tip, have you been hit by the ban? if so how long before it was lifted, was it a full 24 hours?
Yeah I’ve gotten it a time or two…
And it will generally be lifted by 12 noon PST, or there about.
lol, i Just checked 15 mins ago and was still banned, checked just now and it looks like i am in the clear again yay :).
it’s a couple of hours after 12 noon PST here.
What must i do to install “UnionFS Mount” to my CentOS 7 64-Bit? Yum don´t find this package…
@Massaguana said:
What must i do to install “UnionFS Mount” to my CentOS 7 64-Bit? Yum don´t find this package…
I don’t use CentOS, but have you tried this instructions listed here?
https://centos.pkgs.org/7/repoforge-x86_64/fuse-unionfs-0.26-1.el7.rf.x86_64.rpm.html
Yes, i test this instructions, but this steps are not work. I think there is more to do like there to read… halb day google don´t help
Have you enabled the ‘EPEL repository’ first ?
https://www.tecmint.com/how-to-enable-epel-repository-for-rhel-centos-6-5/
EPEL repository
Yes, this repo is enabled. i find this Tuturial last night… but i can´t find UnionFS
[root@plex massaguana]# yum --enablerepo=epel info UnionFS
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.de.leaseweb.net
* epel: mirror.imt-systems.com
* extras: mirror.de.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirror.imt-systems.com
Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@plex massaguana]#
okay, plexdrive started manual works… but how does it works to mount an crypted rclone drive?
