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Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I am looking to basically just transition to a small time, forever on, server to support my growing Plex footprint. I don't need anything top of the line, and I've already crimped my lines to the room.

What's the most cost effective way to go about this? Figured i would come to the pros.

Thanks!

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[–] 1 point 5 days ago

Personally I would do this

Find an old laptop, desktop, any computer

Put proxmox on it. It's free and lightweight

Create a Plex LXC. Also free and lightweight. There are community scripts to do this.

You should get pretty good performance on Plex, you can manage the computer through a web browser and it only costs you whatever the cost of finding some hardware to put it on is

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