In this guide I will be showing you how to set up Plex on a DigitalOcean Droplet and mount your Amazon S3 bucket through S3QL. You can use any VPS you want, I used DigitalOcean because I was familiar with it.

This doesn't have to be done through DigitalOcean.

It is better if you create your own user with the sufficient privileges, but can be done however you desire. Also, you don't have to use the root user, I did because I didn't know what I was doing with my first attempt and I just stuck with it. He also suggested that I could use Amazon S3 for my storage because of it's dirt cheap pricing and flexibility. When I told my friend who introduced me to Plex about my problem he told me about this service called DigitalOcean. I really considered buying parts to build a dedicated machine, but for the parts I wanted, it was close to $1,000 and I would still be limited to my ISP's upload of 4mbps. I threw them in my attic with a power line ethernet adapter and I was ready to go! All was going good until the power bill for the first month came in at $133 more than what it usually is, and I knew it was time to think of a different solution. I started looking up stuff about it like features, system requirements, and how it works, then before you know it, I had my own server set up to run 24x7! I had my server set up on a Dell Poweredge 2850 and a Dell Powervault 220s. So a while back a good friend of mine introduced me to Plex. Before I start, I'm going to say that this is better for people with small libraries (under 500gb) due to Amazon S3's pricing, and if your are curious about pricing, look ( ) for Amazons official AWS pricing calculator, and now on the the guide.

Plex on the cloud