The $750 Plex price hike is the best thing that ever happened to my home server
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Plex's new $750 lifetime pass price hike prompted a switch to Jellyfin, a fully open-source, self-hosted media server alternative. The author details how Jellyfin offers hardware transcoding out of the box, no mandatory cloud account, no relay servers, and free features that Plex charges for. Remote access was set up via Tailscale in about 15 minutes. The piece argues the price hike was ultimately a catalyst to move to a better, leaner setup and encourages other home server users to make the same switch.
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What Plex used to be before it turnedHefty cost for software running on your own hardwareThe media server software I switched toThe price hike pushed me somewhere better122 Impressions