Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn't easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.

Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn’t easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.

  • @SpecalEnglish
    8•7 months ago

    So you are mostly wrong here, I’ll let you know my setup that costs me $15 a month.

    A 4 core 8GB VPS: $5 a month. Unlimited cloud Storage: €10 a month.

    I have Emby (Use jellyfin, I haven’t changed out of laziness), Sonarr, Radarr, Jellyseerr all running on a VPS with caddy running a reverse_proxy to point a domain at emby via HTTPS.

    No need for VPNs, but you can run OpenVPN on your VPS for maximum value for money if you want to use a high speed VPN.

    It’s all very straight forward to setup on Ubuntu 20.04 with lots of documentation. My server has been up for 3 months now and I have had 0 issues, friends use jellyseerr to requests shows and movies. Everything else is automated. Can even import lists from IMDb.

    Make sure if you want to save space to use h.265 encoding where possible. Additionally, if you don’t want to torrent you can use newservers. But that will cost an additional $10 a month.

    • @TORFdot0English
      6•7 months ago

      Where are you getting a 4 core 8GB VPS for $5 a month with unlimited bandwidth/CPU time?

      All the reputable providers have 1GB, single core shared compute for that price.

    • @cozycosmicEnglish
      3•7 months ago

      When you say VPS, do you mean like an AWS or GCP virtual machine?

      • @SpecalEnglish
        2•7 months ago

        Ionos, but I have been grandfathered in with price so you won’t be able to get my deal

      • @TORFdot0English
        1•7 months ago

        AWS/GCP is an order of magnitude more expensive for those specs. And they would ban you for downloading copyrighted material without a VPN. So I wouldn’t recommend that. I was able to get a similar set up using Linode but the specs were way worse and I couldn’t do transcoding, and I didn’t torrent using the $5 a month VPS.

        • @SpecalEnglish
          2•7 months ago

          It depends on what hardware the host is using, my VPS is capable of transcoding around 4 streams simultaneously.