Last week I came across these guides where the use of a VPS and encrypted data on Amazon Cloud Drive is being explained. I think I understand the basic benefits of a VPS, but I still have some questions. I apologize if this is a wrong section on the forum but I didn’t know where else to post this (on the forum, or the internet).
Let me first explain my wished:
Max. 2 streams at once (most of the time it’s just me)
The possibility to transcode for smaller devices. Sources preferably: 1080p, 35-50 GB blurays. Willing to go down if necessary.
Encryption
My questions:
Process-wise, how does this work? From what I understand the VPS runs Plex Media Server and handles the decrypting + transcoding? I have a NAS (Synology DS212+) at home who can take care of the downloading and uploading, but not the transcoding. But the videos need to go through the VPS for encrypting + uploading right? Can I also use the VPS for downloading, encrypting, and uploading it to ACD?
Requirements of the VPS:
How many vCores and RAM should I look for?
Disk space: I don’t understand this. I don’t want to store anything on it, but it is required to download the encrypted data from ACD for decryption? For decryption: is it using part of the file, or the whole file? Basically: how does this work, and what should I look for when it comes to disk space?
Bandwith wise I see many VPS with limits. Shouldn’t this be unlimited? I think they call this unmetered?
Is this possible with a VPS for around €10 (~$11) a month? Any recommendations? I came accross these from OVH. Would any of these suffice?
I should probably mention my download speed is 70Mbit/s and upload is 30 Mbit/s. Perhaps I see a VPS as a thing it just isn’t. Perhaps there are better solutions I’m not aware of? Hoping for some clarification.
English isn’t my native language, so I hope I can make myself clear enough.
I foresee a problem in both costs and your upload speed, as there’s going to be significant bandwidth necessary to get from your local NAS to the VPS (not to mention the networking shenanigans you’ll have to do in order to make the NAS mountable remotely), as well as cost. But I’ll defer to someone else who has actually tried this and failed.
@Lokwin said:
I have a NAS (Synology DS212+) at home who can take care of the downloading and uploading, but not the transcoding. But the videos need to go through the VPS for encrypting + uploading right? Can I also use the VPS for downloading, encrypting, and uploading it to ACD?
You can use either your NAS for the uploading to ACD or the VPS.
You can configure ACD_CLI to use the same KEY or both devices
Requirements of the VPS:
How many vCores and RAM should I look for?
A home server for Plex only needs at most 4GB of RAM so a VPS wouldn’t need more than that
Picking out the number of vCores is similar to determining the CPU needed for a home PMS, the same rules apply
Disk space: I don’t understand this. I don’t want to store anything on it, but it is required to download the encrypted data from ACD for decryption? For decryption: is it using part of the file, or the whole file? Basically: how does this work, and what should I look for when it comes to disk space?
You want enough disk space on the VPS to store the OS, PMS, and any temp files generated during transcoding at a minimum.
Bandwidth wise I see many VPS with limits. Shouldn’t this be unlimited? I think they call this unmetered?
Well unmetered would be ideal but that depends on your expected usage
I should probably mention my download speed is 70Mbit/s and upload is 30 Mbit/s. Perhaps I see a VPS as a thing it just isn’t. Perhaps there are better solutions I’m not aware of? Hoping for some clarification.
You have PlexPass subscription you could look into using the recently announced Plex Cloud as a alternative
