Are there any technical reasons why I couldn’t create an instance for myself and host a Plex server off of the same machine at home?

I’m fairly new to self-hosting in general, so any insight would be appreciated!

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Lemmy often racks up hundreds of gigabytes in logs and other crap, chokes up the hard drive, and then force restarts the server. Not fun for something you use to stream media from. Takes quite some tuning to get it sorted.

    If we are talking about two virtual machines on the same physical server with dedicated storage allocation, that shouldn’t matter.

    • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Lol Wat.

      Op, just budget 200gb for lemmy and you’ll be fine. Our entire lemmy.ca server is only using 100gb. It’ll be a good learning experience!

      Also, check out jellyfin as a possible alternative to plex.