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We have an extensive library at our home in the USA, but wish to have another server running in her mothers home in the UK since we spend so much time there as well. While the village in the UK has fiber, we are remote enough that we only have a WiFi internet connection in the USA…and I don’t want to saturate the marginal connection we have streaming movies and television shows remotely.
Can I do this with a single PLEX account, or must I create another one?
Hi, you can have as many Plex servers as you want with you Plex account (I personnaly run 3).
Cherry on top : if you have an active Plex Pass, all of your servers will benefit from it.
In your client app, you will be able to see and select the libraries from each of the servers.
Search is “universal” : looking for a movie, you’ll be given the option from which server to stream it from.
EDIT :
You didn’t mention it in your post, but I must make clear that you will have different libraries : each server manages its own libraries based on its own storage.
That obviously means that if you want to have identical libraries on both servers, you’ll have to replicate your files between the two locations.
Since the bandwidth is so poor in the USA, my plan is to have a routine that compares the files between the 2 systems and copies the new files from the USA server to a USB drive then carry it on the plane and upload them once we get to the UK…
IF we can get gigabit at the ranch (possible if the WiFi provider gets their radio on the new tower 1/2 mile away) then I can set up a replication job between the 2 servers.
While a bit cumbersome, that’s indeed an option
If you’re comfortable enough with tech and if your wireless access isn’t metered, here’s what you could do to ease your life :
setup a site to site VPN between the two homes. I would go for linux-based machines at both end and a wireguard or OpenVPN tunnel for instance
use rsync to sync from one site to the other : schedule the sync to run over night for instance and if needed also limit the sync bandwidth.
Obviously if you have tens of TB to sync that might take quite some time
Alternatively you could also rsync over SSH directly to or from one of the two sites.
Much easier to setup.
Our problem is the bandwidth at our primary residence isn’t sufficient to stream. I ripped all our stuff at a higher frame rate because everything in the house is a 4K tv…and we also do remote support for our clients and can’t choke the pipe and not allow remote support software to work properly…
Like I said…our provider has applied for a license to mount an antennae on a brand new cell tower 1/2 mile away from us. When they get the go-ahead we will have gigabit connectivity then…and they are laying fiber this week in the village in the UK…so it will give us more flexibility in the future.
Meanwhile…anything that needs updated can be handled with an 8TB USB game drive. It also means I have yet another backup of my library which is at 21TB right now with some 2100 BlueRay movies, 60x 4K movies and 75 television series (2600 episodes) and 60k songs in another location…along with copies stored on SSD’s in the fire resistant safe.
I also have a second 6-drive QNAP that wakes up weekly and synchronizes with the primary and shuts back down…using the 10GB ports to do a direct nas-to-nas update.
I’ve spent too much time ripping files to have to back up and do it all over again…
@ChuckPa you’re absolutely right. 2 of my 3 Plex servers stream media from the same NAS share.
As @jraymond_tx already answered, his main problem is the limited bandwidth at his primary residence. In this context, knowing he cannot properly stream directly from that primary residence, I wanted to make clear that in his particular context, he would have to have dedicated storage in each location.
