Hello everyone, This post comes with a lot of thinking put behind it. It’s something I’ve been considering more and more as things change in the media server space. Initially, I started this project, as indicated by the sidebar on the left of this webpage, on May 5th, 2014. Having purchased my Plex Media Server Lifetime License for the cost of about $75 USD, in March of 2014. Fast forward to today. What might it cost? Now, this really doesn’t affect me or that status of the project because, fortunately, the Lifetime License I bought in 2014, has been honored as it should be and as advertised despite me having spent a fraction of the current day costs of the same license. That being said, this and prior changes to the Plex Pass included features as well as greatly increased the associated costs to new customers. To me, when this began, it felt like Plex has been losing sight of their original project goals and provide less and less support, clarity and reasoning for their changes particularly on the forums. If you have an issue related to money (billing) or a Legal communication to make with them. There’s a form… Read More »The Great Migration

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