Hi guys,
first off all I'm happy to be here. This seems to be a great and friendly community.
You probably won't believe it but I learned of PGBlitz just yesterday. So it's still a lot for me to process.
I'm basically planning to setup a plex server for me and family/friends and I think there will be max 10-15 people if at all.
I originally planned to go the Hetzner auctions route for something like the SB29 (i7-3770, 2x 3TB, 16GB RAM) but it seems that the more popular choice/recommendation here is the EX range (f.i. EX42-NVME).
I pretty quickly learned that drive space isn't that important here because you guys use Gdrive anyway.
Most of the stuff I download would be via usenet or several filehosts but I also want to use the server as a seedbox on some private trackers also because I like the whole p2p community feeling and giving back to people - because we all know: sharing is caring.
So long story short here are a few questions and I'm sure there will be much more the next days:
Thank you in advance!
Cheers
first off all I'm happy to be here. This seems to be a great and friendly community.
You probably won't believe it but I learned of PGBlitz just yesterday. So it's still a lot for me to process.
I'm basically planning to setup a plex server for me and family/friends and I think there will be max 10-15 people if at all.
I originally planned to go the Hetzner auctions route for something like the SB29 (i7-3770, 2x 3TB, 16GB RAM) but it seems that the more popular choice/recommendation here is the EX range (f.i. EX42-NVME).
I pretty quickly learned that drive space isn't that important here because you guys use Gdrive anyway.
Most of the stuff I download would be via usenet or several filehosts but I also want to use the server as a seedbox on some private trackers also because I like the whole p2p community feeling and giving back to people - because we all know: sharing is caring.
So long story short here are a few questions and I'm sure there will be much more the next days:
- what's the difference between gdrive and tdrive? I read in the wiki that tdrive has no daily 750GB upload limit - so I know that. But what is it exactly? And how would someone create a tdrive account instead of a g suite business account?
- is the EX42-NVME overkill for my usecase? I'm not sure if 10-15 users are many or little...
- One very important thing: me and at least 1-2 of the other users would like to play 4k content (with direct play/direct steam capable devices only of course). Will this be possible without any problems or will I run into buffering issues? I'm just wondering because if I understand correctly the server will basically have no local files because all content is on google drive. So it has to be "streamed" to the server first and then to the end user. All of the users are in Germany btw.
- I do watch a lot of my series and movies in English but in 95% of the cases I at least use English subtitles to be able to read some words in case I didn't understand them because of a slang or something like that. Subtitles and Plex seems to be a bit of a problem. Will I at least be able to use SRT subtitles with clients like Kodi (via PlexKodiConnect) or even idx/sub (PGS) subtitles with Kodi without Plex starting to Transcode?
Thank you in advance!
Cheers