Many clients including the mobile app hide, don't have or otherwise have the function to add a server via IP broken.
Why would I route through the internet and back to handle local traffic? That's the reason PLEX isn't in a DMZ
I have PLEX Pass but haven't set this up yet, not so sure about exposing my library to their service.
If this is the meta and worth it I will simply use it
I can't host PLEX in my DMZ because their app sucks on some clients, hiding or not allowing finding the server via IP so it does the local scan junk. It's virtually bridged to 2 VLANs as a result. Also this would become a 10G upgrade for my router if I did this but different topic.
This means direct port forwarding is off the table. Is there a service I can use to act as a middleman (ideally hosted in my DMZ) to access the client, without directly exposing PLEX to the WAN but that also doesn't involve directly exposing my media server full of "Linux ISOs" to a cloud?
Before you tell me to use Jellyfin I am holding off for more feature parity, but this is the eventual plan.
I would avoid these at all costs. Things absolutely scream more than any server even you'll find and you need like 3 nuclear power plants to run them.
It's a good switch though, if you have a data center and power/cooling budget of a corporation
Easiest way with Portainer is to add it as a volume, then you can add the volumes to your container and add the folder in PLEX.
Point and click easy.
Right, so I have a 1U R640. People claim it's loud but I have found it tolerable, until I added a GPU.
Now my fans are always at %100. Is this by design/am I boned if I want a GPU in this thing? These are data center grade boxes where noise isn't something considered.
Perhaps I should sell this for a tower, or is there a fix?
Not that I encourage it, but home users seldom pay MSRP for Windows licenses or at all. Getting around the licensing while ridiculously unlikely to get you busted is a hassle.
The answer is there's just better options you can install on top of Linux or BSD that are easier to manage, a better experience (nice web panels and not an RDP GUI or clunky thick client) and they have 0 licensing concerns to pay or work around.
I wouldn't host a share directly from the Linux CLI for some reason I always found this to be kind of a pain but it works, there's easy solutions like TrueNAS or OpenMediaVault, container based options and you can take the cowards way out with Portainer (that's what I do) to run tons of really lightweight services.
Windows is fine just not the best unless you're doing something that works better or needs it