More commonly however, and perhaps more practically. The argument is academic as long as your have the horsepower on your server to keep piling on additional VMs. If you fall into this category, it literally doesn’t matter how many VMs you install on your hypervisor. It’s not, obviously… unless you’ve got Windows Server Data Centre licenses. How is consuming a £900 Windows Server license any better? To date, my answer has been to run Plex Server in a Windows 10 VM, but this means consuming a £120+ Windows 10 Pro license so that it can effectively molly-coddle a tray icon.Īh ha! I hear you cry. Neither do I want it be forced to leave a logged-on VM running that does something else and thus increases the attack vector. I want Plex to be always on, but not to be sharing a with VM performing other duties. If you log off from its user account, it shuts down the service and you no longer have a working Plex environment.Īt home, the only computers that I have running 24/7 are servers and these are exclusively Hypervisors. It’s a service, but one that insists on running in the userland (as a tray icon). The problem with Plex Server is that it isn’t quite a “server”. Where pushed due to lack of Kodi support Plex also gives a consistent alternative front-end user interface. I personally keep it installed as a gateway between Smart TV’s and my music/video/photo library as it is a convenient way of getting DLNA support on the network. Plex Server, the sometimes controversial media streaming hub, is a staple of the media diet of many home-brew media centre connoisseurs. “Just because you shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean you can’t” Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019.If configured the Custom server access url will be registered at Plex's pub/sub service and clients will only get this url presented in the future. The only way to "fully" levarage the QC address is to take care of the TLS certificates yourself and register is as "Custom server access url". Once PlexWeb is loaded in your browser it will query the server list and try the shortest path - if you are within your lan, it will use a generated plex domain name that resolves to your internal ip (it's their trick to align the domain name with the https certificate they create for you) - but this requires to add an exlcusion for "plex.direct" in your your router's DNS-Rebind protection.
There is no benefit in not using Plex instead. Afair the first setup must be done from a local ip, once the server is claimed with your account and remote access is configured, the PMS instance will register itself at Plex's pub/sub service, which is used by clients to know how to contant your PMS instance.Įven if you manage to use a QC address to access Plex, It will "just" load the PlexWeb client stuff from the PMS instance and nothing else.
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