Plex and your daily driver

[Salacious B Crum]

I was wondering is anybody running plex media server on their daily driver? I have a Ryzen 7 1800x that is my daily driver I have more than enough hardware on hand to use it as a plex server and a PC i.e. 2 4TB HDD's a half dozen  SSD's but I'm not sure I like the idea of having it on all the time plus open to outside access (permission only of course) I have a R7 1600x just sitting here and a pre built I7 6700 locked unit with 16Gigs of memory the problem I'm running into with setting up the pre built is I have these rigs on an extender to my network and I keep running into the issue with IP addresses I think what is happening is because its an extender it is only 1 IP where as I cannot run the server off of a switch because of the IP issue I had this with trying to setup FREENAS as well and finally bailed on that, am I correct about the IP issue or am I missing something? Its weird I can load the server software on the I7 and it will work but I cannot log into the unsupported channel web tool but I can on the 1800x very frustrating as I've done the research on the I7 & and it appears that it can easily run 5 or 6 streams at a time and I have the power plan set to a nice idle when not in use it just seems like a great fit for a PC that I have no use for as, well a PC

[The Benjamins]

26 minutes ago, mrbilky said:

I was wondering is anybody running plex media server on their daily driver? I have a Ryzen 7 1800x that is my daily driver I have more than enough hardware on hand to use it as a plex server and a PC i.e. 2 4TB HDD's a half dozen  SSD's but I'm not sure I like the idea of having it on all the time plus open to outside access (permission only of course) I have a R7 1600x just sitting here and a pre built I7 6700 locked unit with 16Gigs of memory the problem I'm running into with setting up the pre built is I have these rigs on an extender to my network and I keep running into the issue with IP addresses I think what is happening is because its an extender it is only 1 IP where as I cannot run the server off of a switch because of the IP issue I had this with trying to setup FREENAS as well and finally bailed on that, am I correct about the IP issue or am I missing something? Its weird I can load the server software on the I7 and it will work but I cannot log into the unsupported channel web tool but I can on the 1800x very frustrating as I've done the research on the I7 & and it appears that it can easily run 5 or 6 streams at a time and I have the power plan set to a nice idle when not in use it just seems like a great fit for a PC that I have no use for as, well a PC

I run plex on a windows 2012 server that has a xeon d-1541 and 32GB of ram. as far as I can tell plex is only CPU intensive when people are transcoding.

 

You can't run 2 servers on the same network and have both accessible from outside the network. you have to log into them with the local ip versus the https://app.plex.tv/web/app

[brwainer]

37 minutes ago, mrbilky said:

I was wondering is anybody running plex media server on their daily driver? I have a Ryzen 7 1800x that is my daily driver I have more than enough hardware on hand to use it as a plex server and a PC i.e. 2 4TB HDD's a half dozen  SSD's but I'm not sure I like the idea of having it on all the time plus open to outside access (permission only of course) I have a R7 1600x just sitting here and a pre built I7 6700 locked unit with 16Gigs of memory the problem I'm running into with setting up the pre built is I have these rigs on an extender to my network and I keep running into the issue with IP addresses I think what is happening is because its an extender it is only 1 IP where as I cannot run the server off of a switch because of the IP issue I had this with trying to setup FREENAS as well and finally bailed on that, am I correct about the IP issue or am I missing something? Its weird I can load the server software on the I7 and it will work but I cannot log into the unsupported channel web tool but I can on the 1800x very frustrating as I've done the research on the I7 & and it appears that it can easily run 5 or 6 streams at a time and I have the power plan set to a nice idle when not in use it just seems like a great fit for a PC that I have no use for as, well a PC

it sounds like your extender is operating as its own router, including NAT and DHCP. That would cause an issue for running a server on the extender. It can be made to work, but you'd have to forward ports on both the extender and the main router. That gets complicated and annoying, and I would recommend changing your network so that you don't have that extra NAT layer in the middle.

 

8 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

I run plex on a windows 2012 server that has a xeon d-1541 and 32GB of ram. as far as I can tell plex is only CPU intensive when people are transcoding.

 

You can't run 2 servers on the same network and have both accessible from outside the network. you have to log into them with the local ip versus the https://app.plex.tv/web/app

You can definitely have more than one Plex server on the same LAN be accessible remotely - your router has to properly handle UPnP, or you have to manually set and forward ports for each server.

[gamerking]

16 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

I run plex on a windows 2012 server that has a xeon d-1541 and 32GB of ram. as far as I can tell plex is only CPU intensive when people are transcoding.

 

You can't run 2 servers on the same network and have both accessible from outside the network. you have to log into them with the local ip versus the https://app.plex.tv/web/app

you can run two plex servers on one machine i have two running off my 8320e linux nas . you just set each server to its own port/ forward said ports also .

[Marshnt]

On 7/20/2017 at 2:53 PM, mrbilky said:

I was wondering is anybody running plex media server on their daily driver? I have a Ryzen 7 1800x that is my daily driver I have more than enough hardware on hand to use it as a plex server and a PC i.e. 2 4TB HDD's a half dozen  SSD's but I'm not sure I like the idea of having it on all the time plus open to outside access (permission only of course) I have a R7 1600x just sitting here and a pre built I7 6700 locked unit with 16Gigs of memory the problem I'm running into with setting up the pre built is I have these rigs on an extender to my network and I keep running into the issue with IP addresses I think what is happening is because its an extender it is only 1 IP where as I cannot run the server off of a switch because of the IP issue I had this with trying to setup FREENAS as well and finally bailed on that, am I correct about the IP issue or am I missing something? Its weird I can load the server software on the I7 and it will work but I cannot log into the unsupported channel web tool but I can on the 1800x very frustrating as I've done the research on the I7 & and it appears that it can easily run 5 or 6 streams at a time and I have the power plan set to a nice idle when not in use it just seems like a great fit for a PC that I have no use for as, well a PC

EASY SOLVE, look up and implement a DMZ.

[CiscoFan]

I have a Plex server running on Windows Server 2012 R2 inside my VMware ESXi which funny enough I have CUCM and Unity Connection as well as CUCM IM and Presence on that same server. It has 32GB of RAM 4 2TB Drives a 120GB boot drive and I stream on my PS4 which is connected to a Cisco Meraki MR33 AP. I have the network traffic going through a Cisco Catalyst 3560G and a Cisco 3845... with Inter-VLAN Routing.