… You can start with something as basic as a few hard drives, set up a server, and enjoy your library on any device. Or, you can go for a NAS or even a VPS to host your Plex server. …
… Putting down $750 for a lifetime pass requires an immense amount of blind trust that Plex will continue to support local media server architecture for the next decade. There is absolutely no guarantee that Plex, in its current form, will even exist a decade from now. …
… The latter wasn’t as elegant as my NAS setup, but it worked well enough that I didn’t find myself missing the NAS. If anything, the cloud felt more dependable. Any issue with the NAS brings the entire system down, whereas Google’s servers rarely go down, prompting me to depend on it even more. …
… It is a lightweight, Docker-based application that does one thing and does it well, and can be easily run on anything from a Raspberry Pi dedicated to the task, or a NAS setup as a home server. …