Plex / Jellyfin on a VPS.
Your library, your bandwidth.
Run Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby on a Pulsar67 VPS so your library is reachable from anywhere with generous bandwidth included, without exposing your home IP, fighting CGNAT, or asking your ISP for an open port.
Home Plex works until you leave the house.
Hosting Plex at home is great until your ISP decides residential uplink isn't for "video servers", you're behind CGNAT, or you want to share with family and don't want to give them your home IP.
A VPS gives Plex a clean public IP, business-class uplink, and a static address so the apps "just connect." Pair with rclone mounts (Google Drive / OneDrive / S3) or your own storage and it's effectively unlimited.
Business uplink
10 Gbps backbone. Plex Direct Play streams hit line rate; no residential cap.
Clean public IP
Static address, not behind CGNAT. The Plex clients connect first try.
rclone mounts
Mount cloud storage as a filesystem. Effectively unlimited library size for ~zero extra cost.
SAS SSD metadata
Library scans and metadata writes hit SAS SSD. Cover-art browsing actually feels snappy.
Sized for streams and transcodes.
Direct Play barely needs CPU. Transcoding hits the cores hard.
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 GB SAS SSD (+ rclone for library)
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 GB SAS SSD
CPU-only transcoding is slower than GPU. If your viewers' clients can Direct Play, Starter is fine for most H.264 / H.265 libraries.
A streaming-ready box in under an hour.
- A Pulsar67 VPS (Starter for Direct Play, Pro for transcoding)
- Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian 12 - both have Plex / Jellyfin packages
- Plex Media Server or Jellyfin (deb packages, install in one command)
- A storage strategy: local SAS SSD for small libraries, or rclone mounts for unlimited
- Optional: Tailscale or WireGuard so your clients connect privately
A media box you can actually point your family at.
Dedicated public IP
Not CGNAT. Plex remote access works the first time.
10 Gbps uplink
Even 4K streams per viewer barely register on this network.
DDoS protection
Plex shares often get hit by abuse. Always-on at our edge.
Flat price
$5/$15/month flat. No per-stream or per-viewer billing.
Stream from anywhere.
A Plex or Jellyfin box your family can reach without your home IP, your home ISP, or your home power outages.