It depends on if you use the “relay” feature. If your server is accessible from the outside it shouldn’t be using this though.
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CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoStreaming requires high-performance, high-bandwidth machines that cost anywhere from several dozen dollars to several hundred dollars a month. You build a resilient high-availability network, and you could easily be looking at several tens of thousands of dollars a month.
Are you under the impression that Plex uploads the movie files to their servers and then transcodes them there, or something?
And the hard work happens on your own hardware. All Plex’s servers are doing is acting as a signaling server, but no media or routed through Plex’s servers.
kogasa@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
First thing I disable.
huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Plex actually does have streaming services. The ones we’ve never asked for. And live tv.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But the blog post from Plex was specifically talking about charging for remotely accessing your own files. So your point is irrelevant to the discussion.
huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
How is it irrelevant? Plex offers a bunch of services that cost them money that we don’t use, so they jacked up prices for streaming our own data.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s irrelevant because even Plex themselves made no mention of their in-house streaming stuff. The discussion is about being charged to view your videos, hosted on your own self-hosted server, viewed on your own device.