NAS Woes Cont. and Experimental User-base Expansion Pilot

Good day all,

Well, it keeps happening. Despite a full operating system and array removal and subsequent re-installation to factory defaults the system still refuses to stay up citing the power button being depressed as a the cause for the failures.

QNAP informed me that the motherboard would likely be the primary suspect and a replacement out of warranty would come at a cost of $770 USD with a 6 month warranty on the new parts.

Fortunately I offloaded the data that was remaining on the NAS to the new server however I’m now out roughly 60TB of redundant storage space that could be utilized.

Uncertain how I’ll proceed at the time but it wouldn’t hurt to mention we take donations right there on the left on the site…hehe…yeah.

That being said, I’ve been migrating as much as I can to centralize services on one server as it can certainly handle it. You may have noticed requests being down for a while, the above would be the culprit but we’re back up and running. Your requests will be wiped clear but fear not they are already within the database and will be monitored for availability still.

With the limit for conventional users of Plex being 100 active server shares at one time I’ve been constantly looking for a substitute or further method of expanding the number of potential users we can handle at one time.

I’ve come to the conclusion that our best bet is likely an open source media server called Jellyfin. Accounts are managed by the server host and are not soft capped like Plex’s are.

Now the question is do I migrate the existing user-base entirely or simply supplement Plex with Jellyfin on the side for more users.

TBD but I am currently beta testing an invitation/link generation system to ease new users into Jellyfin slowly.

Stay tuned!

-LightSpeedTaco