@smacrae1970 said:
@FernandoMiguel3 you store files on the VPS drive? Or you have a NAS locally that stores your media (assuming you have a large up stream?)
local disks of the VPS server.
@FernandoMiguel3 if you don’t mind me asking which VPS do you use?
The kind of set up you have is ideal however using VPS storage is prohibitively expensive…
@smacrae1970 said:
@FernandoMiguel3 if you don’t mind me asking which VPS do you use?The kind of set up you have is ideal however using VPS storage is prohibitively expensive…
pick anything that serves your needs. i’ve got 4TBs and it’s all fine and dandy
Silly question, is there a difference between rclone on the vps and domestic? I was not able to stream.my library from ACD when mounted with rclone reliably, buffered a lot… And I have 120Mbps down that’s very reliable for any other use.
I haven’t tried at home because our HTPC is on Windows 10, but I have no trouble with the VPS and iClone. It does take a while for content to start streaming. In the case of one MKV bluray it took almost a minute, but then it played without a single hitch. That same file won’t even consider playing on Plex Cloud without severe buffering. I tried the same file on Google drive and it did start a lot quicker (20 seconds wait or so) so I’m even happier with our throwaway Google accounts now. Amazon for safekeeping, Google for streaming B)
Regular DVD type files play almost instantly on both services.
@per_PLEX_ed : You’ll love this! The next version of rclone (or if you’re willing to run the beta) has BUFFERING built in! So, now, you can have it say read-ahead by 1 GB. It basically downloads the first GB as fast as it can and starts streaming and then keeps the buffer filled so that there’s always (ideally) a GB ahead. Early versions had issues (such as it kept taking down my VPS) but lately, its the perfect streamer.
@kelinger said:
@per_PLEX_ed : You’ll love this! The next version of rclone (or if you’re willing to run the beta) has BUFFERING built in! So, now, you can have it say read-ahead by 1 GB. It basically downloads the first GB as fast as it can and starts streaming and then keeps the buffer filled so that there’s always (ideally) a GB ahead. Early versions had issues (such as it kept taking down my VPS) but lately, its the perfect streamer.
Works well with Amazon Cloud Drive?
@kelinger said:
@per_PLEX_ed : You’ll love this! The next version of rclone (or if you’re willing to run the beta) has BUFFERING built in! So, now, you can have it say read-ahead by 1 GB. It basically downloads the first GB as fast as it can and starts streaming and then keeps the buffer filled so that there’s always (ideally) a GB ahead. Early versions had issues (such as it kept taking down my VPS) but lately, its the perfect streamer.
Oh lovely! I will probably need to pick your brain on how to upgrade iclone to the beta version and set the buffering. Remember, baby steps 
Question: how much RAM have your VPS? And how much HDD space you need
In moment i use 2,3 GB RAM and 30 GB HDD Space…
@per_PLEX_ed after you download/install rclone beta from beta.rclone.org, you simply add this to you mount statement for Google or ACD:
--buffer-size=1G
You can change the 1G to anything that works for you depending on your system specs (i.e., 2G or 512M or 128M) with the obvious benefits and drawbacks to each (that is, the larger the value, the more memory consumed). One thing of note is that the buffer corresponds to EACH file being streamed. So, if you typically have 3 people watching movies at the same time, the above setting will use 3G of memory.
@Massaguana I personally am using online.net, thanks to a recommendation from @Kraevin 4 months or so ago. However, I’m more of a power user, so I’m actually paying for the whole server and then creating what essentially amounts to the seed boxes you’re buying elsewhere (that is, I control how much memory and disk space each container has myself). The host itself has 32 GB, 16 cores, and 450 GB storage but I don’t allocate all that to Plex. The host OS (Proxmox to be specific) actually allows burstable memory and CPU meaning that I can provision much more than the 32 GB or 16 cores as long as multiple contains aren’t all using it at the same time (this is outside the scope of this discussion and probably not of interest to most readers).
@KarlDag It definitely works with ACD and Google. Not sure about the others but I don’t see why not.
Ok I assumed that upgrading is the same as installing… I have already downloaded and unzipped it. I believe it just got out of beta 
But when I run sudo cp rclone /usr/sbin/ I’m getting this error cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/sbin/rclone': Text file busy. Do I need to kill the process somehow?
Edit: I seem to have solved it. Just renamed mount.sh temporarily did the trick Should be interesting to see if it’s any faster now!
@per_PLEX_ed you’ll want to stop PlexMediaServer (sudo service plexmediaserver stop) and then stop the mounts before copying over rclone because Plex is using the mounts and the mounts are using the rclone file (thus, copying over the file is blocked). And yes, it does look like the newest rclone came out about the same time as my message!
To see what rclone your system is using, just type rclone -V (that’s a capital V).
@Massaguana said:
Question: how much RAM have your VPS? And how much HDD space you needIn moment i use 2,3 GB RAM and 30 GB HDD Space…
mine has 16GB and over 4TBs of local storage.
I did some testing and the quickest my “troublesome mkv” started was in 9 seconds!! This was with the gdrive account. The same file took 26 seconds on ACD. Funny enough when I switched back to gdrive it took 25 seconds that time… I set the buffer size to 1G. I’m really happy we switched to VPS but I’ll still be rooting for Plex Cloud to mature enough so that we can switch back some day 
@Massaguana said:
Question: how much RAM have your VPS? And how much HDD space you needIn moment i use 2,3 GB RAM and 30 GB HDD Space…
I took a screenshot while playing a bluray file which was heavily transcoded:
As you can see the VPS has no difficulties with it with ample memory left for others should we ever choose to share 
I am using ACDCLI to mount my ACD and have no real delays, is there a benefit of using rclone over acdcli? I am using the same VPS provider as per_PLEX_ed. also my files are not encypted, are yours?
No, my files are not encrypted either. I just use iclone because that is what I found tutorials on, so I’m certainly open for alternatives if they work better B)
Ok moved to rclone mount and now using crypt for encryption, seems to be working fine, now just converting all my stuff sure takes a long time
@Qlogic said:
I am using ACDCLI to mount my ACD and have no real delays, is there a benefit of using rclone over acdcli? I am using the same VPS provider as per_PLEX_ed. also my files are not encypted, are yours?
The biggest advantage I’ve seen with using rclone to mount instead of acd_cli is there are no syncing issues with rclone when used for mounting. I no longer have to unmount acd_cli, sync, and then remount after I media is added with rclone move
yeah i had the same problem with acdcli, i would upload once a day and only sync once a day like 6 hours later to make sure it wouldn’t crash
rclone with crypt seems to be working real nice right now, so sticking with that
