Silo is a new up and coming competitor, also completely open source and written in go, and has full Postgres support from the get-go, along with proper architecture decisions to allow transcoding across multiple hosts.

The vision of Silo appears to be much more clear, and has quite a few great devs behind it. It also has features to run side by side and has full JF api support. I have no involvement in the project, just excited for a new player in the space.

Something to keep an eye on!

▲ wiether 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

  > and has full Postgres support from the get-go

I was like: why should I care?

Then I went on siloserver's website and I was even more confused.

What made the success of Plex is how easy it is to setup, how nice it looks and how easy it is to use.

Siloserver's marketing miss all those points because they focus on the tech stack, don't show a single picture of the UI and don't demonstrate the UX.

Even as someone who understands the tech written on the website, I don't see the point. So I can easily imagine how someone without the technical knowledge would feel about this...

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radcod3 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed, the only UI demo I could find was in https://github.com/Silo-Server/silo-apple

I'm thinking of trying it out though to see if there's any noticeable differences in performance etc.

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gorbachev 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You'll understand when/if your Plex media library grows so large that every rescan takes a week.

	▲	wiether 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I currently have 10Tb of 1080p content and rescans takes a few seconds. The only thing that actually takes time is the intro detection on new content, but it's because I don't have a lot of compute power on the server hosting my Plex instance. I just checked: my "com.plexapp.plugins.library.db" is 24Mb. Meanwhile, I have some custom apps with SQLite db's that are >10Gb and I don't have performance issues. So I don't see how big a library have to be for its db to become a bottleneck?
	▲	zparky 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		dear lord, what kinda size are you talking about? in terms of TB/# of shows/files?

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evulhotdog 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As I mentioned it’s pretty new and the server doesn’t even have a tagged or release version yet. Take a look at the repo activity: https://github.com/Silo-Server/silo-server/graphs/commit-act...

Marketing is not really the important bit at the moment when they’re working on building things from the ground up.

I was just mentioning it because it’s a new contender to the space, changing the status quo. Always a good thing in the OSS world.

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TiredOfLife 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's much easier to run for profit media servers with proper big db support

▲ nickthegreek 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

First time I've seen a mention of Silo out on the open internet. This thing is really designed for large scale piracy networks that choke on massive libraries.

https://siloserver.org