Last October, Plex started blocking access to instances running on servers hosted by Hetzner. I have a Hetzner Auction server that I renew every year or so to make use of newer hardware, which I use to run various workloads, from web services, to scheduled jobs and self-hosted instances of privacy-friendly alternative web frontends like Nitter. Another one of those workloads, until recently, was Plex. I didn't have the time to put too much effort into getting around the Hetzner network ban when it was first implemented, so I just started running Jellyfin instead. I even made a video demonstrating how easy it was to get Jellyfin up and running on a VPS. The Initial View from Europe Since getting laid off I finally had some time to try and think about how to get Plex working again. My circumstances have changed since I first started hosting Plex back in the early 2010s: I no longer travel for work (previously, I was an ICRC field delegate and later, for a time, a software development co…
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