Are there any technical/performance reasons why I couldn’t create an instance for myself and host a Plex server off of the same machine at home?

I’m fairly new to self-hosting in general, so any insight would be appreciated!

EDIT: I completely forgot to mention that this would be for a Mastodon instance, not for Lemmy.

  • ShadowAEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Lol Wat.

    Op, just budget 200gb for lemmy and you’ll be fine. Our entire lemmy.ca server is only using 100gb. It’ll be a good learning experience!

    Also, check out jellyfin as a possible alternative to plex.

    • veeeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I should have specified that I was interested in creating a Mastodon instance, not Lemmy, but I’m glad to know that I could do that should I want to build one.

      I’ve looked into Jellyfin as a secondary service. At the moment my parents have gotten used to navigating Plex and having them re-learn something new over the phone is…not something I have the energy or time for lol

        • veeeOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          As an example of my parents’ non-tech savvyness they have put off updating apps on their phones for years because they don’t trust that the updates are secure. I just don’t have the energy to act as a constant line of tech support.

      • ShadowAEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Images aren’t federated, but their thumbnails are stored in your instance. You can prune those though as needed.