My Plex Server

Part of the purpose of my home server is to download, process, and serve media to my close friends and family through a software called Plex. The server runs from my office closet and doesn't have anywhere near 100% uptime, but it's awfully convenient as an alternative to Netflix.

Libraries

My two main libraries are Movies and TV. On the server there are movies, which have been watched a total of times. In the TV library there are shows with a total of seasons and episodes, watched a total of times.

In the last month the most popular movie has been , watched times by people. The most popular TV show has been , streamed by people.

Usage

On average we stream about hours of movies and hours of TV every month. This isn't evenly distributed, though - most of the watch time is in the evening between 5PM and midnight.

I've plotted the total watch time for each month for the last several years - we're pretty steady! The only blip was in May 2023, where a configuration error prevented Tautulli from keeping logs for a few weeks.

Movies

Most of the movies I download are around 5GB each, though there are plenty of exceptions both larger and smaller. I've been moving towards 1080p files for most new releases, which are higher quality but take up a bit more space. At current storage prices, this comes out to about 7 cents for a typical movie.

Do I have a bias towards more recently released movies? Definitely. But how many of those have been watched more than once?