Plex hosting on unmetered bare-metal.
Stream your whole library in 4K to any device, anywhere — with hardware transcoding, unmetered upload, and no ISP data cap. Deploy a tuned Plex box in hours.
Why Plex needs real bandwidth.
Direct-play and transcoded 4K streams to family and friends need real upload — an unmetered 10 Gbit/s port carries dozens of concurrent streams with headroom.
A busy Plex share pushes tens of TB/month. On a home line that hits a data cap; here egress is unmetered and free.
Add a GPU tier and Plex offloads 4K→1080p transcodes to NVENC — a dozen simultaneous transcodes on one box instead of choking a CPU.
NVMe for metadata + thumbnails keeps the UI instant even on a 100k-item library; bulk media sits on high-density storage over the private VLAN.
Sized for Plex Media Server.
Starter / Production / High-load — with capacity in the metrics that matter for this app.
- CPUXeon E5-2690 v3 · 24c
- RAM64 GB
- Storage2 TB NVMe
- Port10 Gbit/s
- Trafficunmetered
- CPUXeon Gold 6138 · 40c
- RAM128 GB
- Storage4 TB NVMe + 108 TB HDD
- Port10 Gbit/s
- Trafficunmetered
- CPUEPYC + RTX PRO 4500
- RAM128 GB
- Storage4 TB NVMe + 216 TB HDD
- Port25 Gbit/s
- Trafficunmetered
On by default.
Plex Media Server pre-installed, transcode temp on NVMe, remote access configured.
The rated port speed, sustained, no per-GB egress, no cap.
Always-on scrubbing — your remote share stays reachable.
Dual-stack, free /64. Remote access works on modern networks.
Attach a ZFS storage box over the private VLAN for the library.
Moving from a NAS or another host? We help move the library.
Running Plex on a Hostfory server
Plex turns a folder of media into a Netflix-style library you can stream anywhere — but the moment you share it beyond your own TV, the bottleneck becomes upload bandwidth and transcoding power, and a home connection has neither. Residential upload is asymmetric and slow, ISPs cap monthly data, and a CPU-only box stutters the moment two people request 4K at once.
A dedicated Plex server on Hostfory removes all three limits. The unmetered 10 Gbit/s port carries dozens of concurrent direct-play streams and does not meter a single gigabyte, so a library shared with an extended family runs at a flat monthly price no matter how many terabytes it serves. NVMe storage keeps metadata and thumbnails instant even on six-figure libraries, while bulk media lives on a high-density ZFS volume attached over the private VLAN.
For heavy transcoding, the High-load tier pairs Plex with an NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500: hardware NVENC offloads 4K→1080p conversions so a dozen simultaneous transcodes run on a single box instead of melting a CPU. Every tier ships with 1.6 Tbit/s of DDoS scrubbing and dual-stack IPv6, and the NOC will help migrate an existing library off a NAS or another host.
Plex Media Server questions, answered.
Can I hardware-transcode 4K?
Is there a bandwidth cap?
Where does the media library live?
Do you install Plex for me?
Which location should I pick?
Deploy Plex Media Server today.
In-stock configs provision in 1–3 hours. Migration from another host is on us.