Hello everyone, Subsequent to recent and steady growth of the user base and in an effort to cope with the system resource demands the come with peak usage times, there will be intermittent periods of server unavailability beginning November 1st, (better late than never I suppose) into November 2nd with an unlikely possibility of running into the 3rd, in order to accommodate the necessary downtime associated with the hardware reconfiguration and testing. Geeked up, playing Xbox all day – Juicy J, May 2011 Up until this point in the project, we have utilized exclusively CPU based means for transcoding media for playback. Why? Well, primarily because over the various iterations of hardware that have been subject to use and abuse in the name of digital entertainment for this project, CPU’s, more specifically CPU cores, were/are plentiful and affordable. Given the reasonably small user base that only saw peak CPU usage around 40% of the current server’s total potential or roughly one of the two physical CPU’s present in the server, there was no need for faster, denser processing chips, let alone a (back then) bank breaking GPU to take advantage of a then newly implemented feature in an early access… Read More »At Long Last – Precious Hardware Acceleration

Hello everyone, It’s short notice but rather important to get taken care of and I figured before the weekend would be best. Early in the morning of the 30th of May, 2025, there will be a few hours of downtime while the array is backed up for image transfer once the new larger drives have been initialized in their new array. Subsequently, later that same day in the early afternoon or morning, there will be another few hours of downtime while the disk image is restored and the array is fully initialized. Estimates have it between the following times… First Outage Window – 2:00 AM EST to 5:00 AM EST Second Outage Window – 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM EST These are tentative but there will be downtime on the 30th regardless. This is to ensure that our growing community has it’s hardware demands met and can continue to function nominally and without unexpected disruption. Thank you for your understanding. -LST

Hello everyone, You may have recently received or heard of some changes that Plex is implementing on their end when it comes to “Remote Streaming”. The email looked like this… Right off the bat, I’d like to be clear that any users that the Plex library is shared with will retain the ability to remotely stream from the server are not subject to the limitations implemented in the changes which can be seen with a bit more detail and clarity on the Plex Support page regarding the topic.https://support.plex.tv/articles/requirements-for-remote-playback-of-personal-media/That being said, I just wanted to clarify any confusion that the email from Plex may have caused.When it comes to WarpEngine, you’re covered from our end, no need to pay for a Remote Streaming Pass for our libraries. –LightSpeedTaco

Hello everyone, As you may have seen on the left of the page, we’ve once again gotten close to our storage capacity. In an effort to open up some more space and still be able to maintain the open requests submissions as usual. Again for this purge, constraints have been tightened a bit from 500 days to 365 days for un-viewed content. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 365 days TV ShowsMovies – Days since media has been added and no Plex user has viewed the content exceeds… 60 days Preliminary dry runs indicate a significant relief to the storage arrays utilized space under these new conditions. Pruning routine execution time: January 2nd, 2:00 AM EST -LightSpeedTaco

Hello everyone, As you may have seen on the left of the page, we’ve once again gotten close to our storage capacity. In an effort to open up some more space and still be able to maintain the open requests submissions as usual. Movie and Show media that was added but has yet to be watched since it’s addition for 90 days, it will be removed. This has changed from the prior constraint of 180 days. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 500 days TV ShowsMovies – Days since media has been added and no Plex user has viewed the content exceeds… 90 days *Note: Considering 365 days for any views down from 500 days… Preliminary dry runs indicate a significant relief to the storage arrays utilized space under these new conditions. Pruning routine execution time: by August 1st, 2024 Completed: July 29th, 2024 – 4:42 PM EST -LightSpeedTaco