Replacement for CloudatCost
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
Most of my collection isn't movies though. It's mostly TV shows.
Does that mean that you watch them regularly rather than rarely?
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
I host the files locally and connect the shares to the remote server.
What's the purpose of the remote piece? Just to expose to non-home locations?
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I have one locally. The problem is I don't have the resources to provision the local Plex server the way I want.
But, presumably, doing so would be cheap compared to other options.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I've got another server already. It's a Dell Poweredge I got from @PSX_Defector. I just need to get it setup...
Can't take that much longer than building something on a cloud, right? Just take the time to do it locally. Worth the effort now.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
Most of my collection isn't movies though. It's mostly TV shows.
Does that mean that you watch them regularly rather than rarely?
I usually watch them once and then move on. However, many people have access to this server.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
I host the files locally and connect the shares to the remote server.
What's the purpose of the remote piece? Just to expose to non-home locations?
Load-balancing. I divvy up the load between multiple servers for multiple people using them.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I've got another server already. It's a Dell Poweredge I got from @PSX_Defector. I just need to get it setup...
Can't take that much longer than building something on a cloud, right? Just take the time to do it locally. Worth the effort now.
Yeah, but as it stands right now, if I bring that into my current dwelling, my landlord would freak...
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I usually watch them once and then move on. However, many people have access to this server.
Then just don't allow a bunch of people to access it. Of course we could go into the legal aspects of this as it's not legal either.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
Do you legally own any of them?
Yes.
All of them?
Sorry, but one question per person.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
Do you legally own any of them?
No.
If you had to guess, what percent do you think you legally own? I am going to guess that it is less then 10%, might even be less then 1%.
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@Aaron-Studer I think you are missing the point here. He is also distributing them.
@thanksajdotcom said:
I usually watch them once and then move on. However, many people have access to this server.
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@coliver said:
@Aaron-Studer I think you are missing the point here. He is also distributing them.
WHAT?! @thanksajdotcom How do you like prison?
I never understood why you would want a hosted PLEX server, never made since to me, until now.....
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@coliver said:
@Aaron-Studer I think you are missing the point here. He is also distributing them.
WHAT?! @thanksajdotcom How do you like prison?
I'm not charging for it. I'm also not in the mood today to deal with s*** [moderated] like that comment, so if you don't have anything to add to the OP, shut it.
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@coliver said:
@Aaron-Studer I think you are missing the point here. He is also distributing them.
@thanksajdotcom said:
I usually watch them once and then move on. However, many people have access to this server.
Oh, that's completely different. He's running a service. Legality aside, hosting elsewhere is obviously a smart choice then.
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This falls under the posting too much online category. Or just don't do it category.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I'm not charging for it.
So if I rob a bank, but give the money away, it's OK?
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For hosting something of this scale, you are basically running a tiny Netflix service. I think getting something super cheap is going to be pretty tough.
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@scottalanmiller said:
For hosting something of this scale, you are basically running a tiny Netflix service. I think getting something super cheap is going to be pretty tough.
Yeah, I can connect to the content remotely. It's just having a second server for load-balancing that I'm concerned with.
