Stability issues returned, but I think I accidentally fixed it by unintentionally erasing my cache. A clean install of only the software I need (radarr, sonarr, SABnzdb, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr).

I still need a video card for transcoding, as I misread the chart, and the cheapo one I bought only does decoding, and not encoding.

is there a reason that you are transcoding at all? it is a big drain of system resources and can be averted by just direct streaming everything. if the media is in certain formats though you won't be able to direct stream. most of my stuff is MP4 and direct streams just fine to all my devices

so i finally got a plex server set up on a tiny little VPS, which is something i've been meaning to do for a long time. to start, I only bought a $5/month server, which has 25GB of storage (obviously going to need to bump it up soon enough).

does anyone else here use Plex? And if so, do you use it to replace streaming services like Netflix or HBO or maybe even Spotify? If so, how do you like it as a replacement? I spent this weekend uploading a bunch of things and am quickly realizing it's going to be a pain in the ass to maintain. I'm typically waiting until night to upload, so my bandwidth isn't congested during peak hours, which is working out pretty good except for the times that it fails during the night. Overall, it's going okay, but going to take a lot of hours to build up a respectable library, and I feel like i might lost interest eventually.

For those who don't know what Plex is, it's a media server that you can either pay for as a service or host yourself and stream your own content that you upload to the service (or pay for content Plex offers). The benefits are a great out-of-the-box streaming experience for a lower cost than if you were paying for multiple different streaming services like Netflix and Hulu.

very late to reply but wouldn't hosting it on a VPS get you in potential legal troubles (worst case) or get you suspended (best case). many VPSes have some anti-piracy rules. so unless its an offshore DMCA-ignore VPS in Moldova, Russia, Vietnam or Seychelles, you're pretty much fucked.

Plex, jellyfin and similar services could be run on a pretty weak spare hardware unless you need on-fly transcoding

possibly, but it's all locked behind a login wall, so unless the VPS goes looking i might be good? idk i just read a few reddit threads of people asking and seems like it's mostly fine.

First, for some reason a lot of media defaults to French, which isn't a huge deal, since I just have to switch the language over and turn off the subtitles. It's more of a deal for my partner who doesn't retain how to do that no matter how many times I've shown her.

Fourth, some TV is just a bitch to find, like Seinfeld, it's there, but seems to clog up my queue with files that just hang there forever. I installed an optical drive, and set up MakeMKV and Handbrake, they work great at taking my DVDs and Blu-Rays, and converting them to a useable format, just pop the disc in and let them do their thing. The downside is unlike ripping my CDs back in the day where 99% of the time the track listings were pulled from CDDB, there apparently isn't anything like that for visual media. It's pretty much a crapshoot as to how things are named and organized, so I still have to babysit them on some level.