Out of sheer curiosity, I’d love to know what everyone is running their Plex server on. I know these forums tend to lean more towards the “techie” type… so these answers may be a little skewed, but just curious overall! I’ve run on Windows, Mac OS and Ubuntu and for some reason always end up back on Windows.
I use Windows on my computers and Android on my Shield. In reality the OS does not matter as long as it is stable and you are familiar enough with it to do regular updates and understand it well enough to follow any instructions that you may be given if you have problems.
I have had servers also under a couple of flavors of Linux but took them down because I am just more comfortable with Windows.
I will say that I have to do almost nothing on my Shield as it just keeps chugging along. Several earlier iterations of the Shield OS and Plex just did work and play well with the Shield. But the release from about a year ago has proved to be stable and I have had zero problems with Plex on any of my platforms for more than a year. The Shield and both of my Windows computers running Plex (and one also running Emby) have not caused me any grief at all.
So the real consideration for running Plex is Which operating system is best for you. Aside from that consideration the operation system does not matter much.
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Centos 8
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I’m running all Apple TV’s or Iphones for the clients and for the server, I’m running one on Centos 8, one Centos 7, one on Ubuntu and one on Windows 7. The Centos server run a lot better, with less overhead than Ubuntu and Windows 7.
-Madlad
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@Elijah_Baley makes a great point. Go with what you know.
My money’s worth… I use Windows 7. And will continue to use Windows 7 till Plex is no longer supported. Then I will use it on Linux. I’ll need to take a crash course in Linux.
Thank goodness we have @ChuckPa !!!
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Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-1026-raspi aarch64)
on a pi 4
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Please do remember my Fee Schedule:
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Windows 10. Word of wisdom. Back up your server with something that works. Acronis is my fave. Last night I was playing around with a beta of the new TTC Agent and PLEX died. Wouldn’t start. Deleted everything I did and reinstalled PLEX and no good. Had to restore the entire server from a backup I made the previous night and all was good.
So get a good backup program and use it. You never know when you will need it.
HAHA this is great. Do you owe us money for wrong answers though haha
The fee schedule includes allowance for incorrect answers.
Please place all complaints and refund requests in my in-basket.
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Debian 10 inside a Container running on Debian 10
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Plex Media Server running on Fedora 64bit mounting a WD EX4100 NAS which contains all my media.
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Any reason? I can’t resist my curiosity.
Speaking as a person who was once deeply entrenched in Windows 7, PMS works fine in Windows 10. The only Windows 7 install I have left is a VM for some legacy stuff. It gets turned on once or twice a year.
(PMS also runs great on Ubuntu/Debian, for the record, though I ran into an annoying bug and I couldn’t effectively troubleshoot it the way I could in Windows.)
Windows Server 2019. Have Plex running on the host, and various VMs also running Server 2019 for the “other” bits.
Server 2012 R2, and backing up Plex every 2 hours with Veritas Backup Exec, and the OS is backed up weekly with Veritas System Recovery… Belt ‘n’ feckin’ braces! lol
I have a “main” server that runs on my Windows 10 Desktop system ( i9-9900K CPU, 64GB memory). I also have Plex server instances on two Netgear NAS systems (their OS is a Debian clone). Both are ReadyNAS 314 models, each with 4 drives. I use these for remote connections with less “bulky” file fomats (e.g. MP3 instead of FLAC).
Windows 10 is slow, the design is not intuitive for me. Additional crapware that I don’t use and difficult to get rid/uninstall nor do I want to take the time and learn how. Everything takes 5 clicks to do while it’s 2 clicks in Windows7. The metroUI interface is a joke. Great for tablets I suppose. Still, not for me. And clearly not for many other people because M$ added it back while testing it on Windows8.
Overall, I believe Windows 10 is becoming a client rather than an OS.
Do take care @NewPlaza, you are gambling with your network security more and more as each day goes by, when running an unsupported OS.
I’m all for “each to their own” but sooner or later you’re gonna have a problem.
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All my PMS servers are running Windows 7…
You must be joking. Windows is by far the worst modern OS if network security is your priority. And truth be told, outdated OS/programs can be good/bad as an updated one.
An example if this would be one of the sites I used to visit for downloadable contents. The newer (OOTB) web browsers (Firefox/Chrome) would execute code that tried to inject software/popups/undesired behavior whereas a very old version would not because it didn’t support the code. But nonetheless, I don’t depend on my OS for security… That’s where security programs come to play.
You’re absolutely right. When PMS no longer supports Windows7. Then what will happen is I’ll keep the last known version for Win7 until Plex Inc sends me another email stating I will need to upgrade PMS to continue using it.
But the fact that I can run Firefox 12 and browse the web says alot about moving standards. They move VERY slowly.
