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netlify is amazing for static sites.
netlify is amazing for static sites.
OP is clearly a tier 2 ISP who is reselling bandwidth
Here in Canada at least, I was taught in elementary school to capitalize all important words (i.e. other than and, or, at, in, etc.) in a title. Is it taught differently in other places?
You could easily avoid this by just changing your DNS server to something hosted outside of Italy like Google or CloudFlare right? Seems trivially easy to circumvent, for someone who’s already going out of their way to pirate media.
You can definitely run pihole and Plex on the same machine!
I would go for a used PC over a refurb server. servers eat up a lot of electricity and will increase your electric bills quite a bit.
go for something with an Intel CPU, maybe a 10th gen i3, or even older if you want cheaper. Intel’s quicksync will let you do hardware transcoding without a GPU. you really don’t need a very powerful cpu otherwise, both Plex and pihole aren’t very heavy on the cpu.
Plex is a media server. You can think of it like an instance of Netflix that you host yourself, with all your own media.
What can it do?
It lets you keep your media on one computer, and access it from anywhere on any device.
Plex Media Server (PMS), or sometimes just referred to as Plex, Is the server itself. It tracks all your media, metadata, etc, and handles servery stuff like transcoding, and actually serving the media.
Just like any other streaming service, to connect to the server and actually play the media, you need a client. There are many different Plex clients including but not limited to:
Can I access it on Chromecast?
Yes! you can cast from your phone to a Chromecast in the Plex app. If you’ve got an android TV, you can also install the native Plex app, and browse Plex like any other streaming service.
why do I even need it?
Probably because you (will) have a lot of media sitting around, and need a way to access the media without being physically in front of the computer it is stored on. Maybe you want to share your media collection with other people.
What else do I need to make it useful?
Plex works pretty well on its own! You just need to provide your own media, and point Plex at where your media is. This can be through ripping Blurays, or … less than legal means. If you plan on going the legally murky route, there are many other applications like Sonarr and Radarr that will automatically find and download media, but that’s too advanced for now.
LMK if you have any other questions, I’d be glad to give more answers.
nothing is legally due, Sony more than likely has clauses in their ToS that say they can remove access to content for whatever reason.
Morally fucked up, but legally fine.