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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I know telling you that "You should have done this" isn't helpful today, but super recommend Proxmox in the future. I have had containers running Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby all on the same physical host by utilizing LXCs. Migration could be rough, but overall it's not as complicated as it sounds.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Proxmox sounds like VMs, which is a hard no for me since that’s why I went to Docker in the first place, to get away from the overhead of VMs. Am I misunderstanding?

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not misunderstanding, just not the full picture. Proxmox can do VMs, but LXCs are different thing.

LXCs are a 'container' and have some requirements that might be frustrating sporadically, but they are much lighter. They'll present like you'd expect from a VM (Their own operating system/shell/etc) but resources are mostly shared across LXCs on a host. Overhead isn't gone, but drastically reduced. Personal experience obviously, but it's never been something I've had to seriously consider on an LXC.