I’ve been a long time lurker in the forums and have previously contemplated the idea of having a VPS plex server running with some sort of unlimited storage plan. With the announcement of the new storage options Google drive, dropbox mainly I think its a good time for me to revisit that idea. I currently have a 6 bay Qnap NAS which is reaching its limits in terms of storage space, I have been looking at the storage options provided by Google and Dropbox and both offer Unlimited storage options for their business subscriptions. They require 5 users to get truly unlimited. Paying for all 5 to just get unlimited for 1 person is obviously expensive. So I am wondering if anyone would be willing to “share” the cost by becoming users on the account and thus bringing the cost down to just 1 user per month and thus getting truly unlimited storage?
The first Plex Cloud went with Amazon cloud storage only and they had/have an unlimited plan. @sremick which TOS would be violated actually. Plex? Or Google/Dropbox? The idea to use any form of legitimate unlimited plan to host whatever media you would want that would then work with Plex Cloud. Or is it that the “unlimited plans” of those providers prohibit any of the media to live in their cloud?
I’m personally happy with the offering of the OVH hUBIC cloud. Their 10TB storage is very cheap. It is maybe not “unlimited” but 10TB gets me a long way already.
For the cloud providers I am curious how it will work to get media in the cloud but to not have the files also locally on some drive.
To get the files in the cloud would need to use some sort of network drive mounting which has been done. I currently have amazons unlimited storage but with the fiasco of amazon limiting recent uploads, I don’t feel they are a safe bet for the future unlike say a business account with dropbox or Google. Much more expensive if only one person actually using it. But with the minimum of 5. That will bring the cost per month to the actual 1 user per month. In the UK where I am based Dropbox offers Business at £11 p/m and Google drive business for £6.60 p/m. At those prices for unlimited storage is definitely a lot more affordable.
@abzzzzy said:
I currently have amazons unlimited storage but with the fiasco of amazon limiting recent uploads, I don’t feel they are a safe bet for the future unlike say a business account with dropbox or Google.
Amazon seems to have stopped some users from uploading. Not exactly sure whats going on just had a quick read over the issue.
Amazon hasn’t actually stop users from uploading.
The Amazon API that Plex uses to upload media through CloudSync has changed and the DEV Team has yet to determine what to change on their end to correct the issue
Amazon seems to have stopped some users from uploading. Not exactly sure whats going on just had a quick read over the issue.
Amazon hasn’t actually stop users from uploading.
The Amazon API that Plex uses to upload media through CloudSync has changed and the DEV Team has yet to determine what to change on their end to correct the issue
I would not have though that would the be case, as surely each of the 5 users of dropbox or google would have their own space accessed via their own username and password. So in plex cloud when you come to add your dropbox or google accounts each user would authenticate as themselves, so granting plex access to their individual space. You would not be sharing your plex with the other 4 users.
I think you guys are not understanding what he is saying… he is not really violating TOS if i understand this right.
He is saying he wants to get Google Unlimited, but requires 5 users for unlimited, he is wanting to split the cost of the 5 users, to share the unlimited drive. He is not charging them for plex, but for the unlimited access google drive. Each user would have their own google account, which they would normally being paying montly anyway.
Also just a FYI, to save all this pain, just sign up for google drive g suit, pay for the domain and 1 user. Its actually unlimited. they say 5 but don’t enforce it. I have been a single user on my account for about 3 years now with unlimited @ 10 dollars a month.
C’mon guys, Amazon Cloud is still the cheapest by far. Just use Rclone to upload and you’ll be just fine. It works like a gem. I, for my part set up Rclone to upload any new files in my Plex folders when windows starts so everything is practicaly automated. I don’t have the cloud invite yet but I think that the way to go is, Rclone to upload and Plex to stream. Just don’t use cloudsync untill it get’s fixed.
@Robbruy said:
C’mon guys, Amazon Cloud is still the cheapest by far. Just use Rclone to upload and you’ll be just fine. It works like a gem. I, for my part set up Rclone to upload any new files in my Plex folders when windows starts so everything is practicaly automated. I don’t have the cloud invite yet but I think that the way to go is, Rclone to upload and Plex to stream. Just don’t use cloudsync or Plex Cloud w/ Amazon Cloud drive untill it get’s fixed.
fixed.
Amazon Cloud Drive is like 85% broken right now on Plex Cloud just a FYI. API rates have pretty much halted Amazon and Plex at this point. It’s being worked on, but no ETA on fixes, its more of a Amazon issue i believe though than Plex.(of course it is beta, and hopefully will be fixed at some point in the beta).
I see. So does this apply for streaming and transcoding aswell? I thought it was only an upload issue. It’s a shame 'cause untill now Amazon is the most affordable.
@Robbruy said:
I see. So does this apply for streaming and transcoding aswell? I thought it was only an upload issue. It’s a shame 'cause untill now Amazon is the most affordable.
Right now its a bit of everything, most being API rate limits on reading, writing, downloading, uploading and etc…I have not had much luck at all testing Amazon, i would get lucky if something would play, but then buffer out shortly after and fail. This is on a gigabit connection.
I’ve had zero issues uploading or downloading on my 80/20 connection to ACD (initial upload of 6.5Tb using rclone, and currently restoring that same backup after nuking my server =D ), but plenty of issues with using Plex Cloud with ACD. Once my local server is restored I’m going to be uploading my media to GDrive instead as that appears to be a better option for Plex Cloud
I have a 5Mbps upload link but uploading to Amazon Cloud is **so **slow that the fact it’s unlimited is moot. It’s taken literally months just to upload 1TB of photos & videos & I have about another 8TB of personal videos & photos to go. It’s going to take me years to get everything in the Amazon Cloud. I have another 10TB of TV & movies but there is no way that I can even start to upload those files.
