Originally Posted by Furballs

Automation is nice, but most of the time it kicks you in the backside, sometimes though, people like myself prefer to spend days and days doing something 'automated' to save a few minutes every so often. Weird eh?

I managed to get around 1 gig / 0.005 euros per month, before tax (6TB Raid 0). Type 'serverbidding' in google. Quality of the hardware is probably questionable (You're renting pre-used hardware), but when you design it using scripted builds you can actually re-deploy elsewhere very quickly.

So I guess all of this is probably down to pure 'preference' rather than one route is better than the other.

the only thing that make me want a dedi is full control for plex. The down side is that cost to much for my needs. i don't see the point of having someting that i don't use. My home connection is strong, VPN i don't need, i don't have librarys, and i watch most of the things in 720p.

a better solutin is having some kind of setup at home where i download what i have on the seedbox, like movies in 1080p for the tv.

In the future when i will upgrade my internet at 1 gbps maybe i will upgrade the seedbox too. untill then, what i use now ( 100down/100up) is more than enought.

Seedboxes.cc have some nice boxes with some kind of plex ( worked well on my tv ) but the data cap is too low + expensive for me. If they had 200 gb space + 10 tb at 7-10 euros that was the best option for me.