I was looking to set up a new server for a caching service that ran via Docker but the first step was to get Docker set up on a new Ubuntu Server install so I thought I would document the steps I took to get it installed, mainly for future reference so I don’t have …
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This app was pointed out to me as a way to mimic the Spotify Wrapped thing that they do every year, showing you the most listened-to songs, top artists, etc on your Spotify account but instead with Plex! Plex Wrapped taps into the data generated by Tautulli and presents them to you on a “nicely” …
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Not only have I been a long-time Plex user, but I have built a few Plex servers over the years and I wanted to outline my newest setup. It is quite a beast, especially compared to the previous server which was a 2012 Mac Mini that I only used out of simplicity but in the end, it was not powerful enough to handle my needs. The form factor was great but when it came to having to transcode anything, it simply failed.
I recently upgraded the Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD drive in my home server to a Samsung 970 Plus NVMe drive for faster read/write speeds but ran into some issues after the reinstall with the NFS mount and Docker. The issue that I was having was that with the added speed of the NVMe drive, …
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