Plex shutters its cloud service after months of technical issues

Personal media player Plex told its users today that it’s shutting down its Plex Cloud service at the end of November, as spotted by Variety. The Plex Cloud service has had multiple technical issues and has been in maintenance mode for a few months.

The company said in a statement to Variety that “after a lot of investigation and thought, we haven’t found a solution capable of delivering a truly first class Plex experience to Plex Cloud users at a reasonable cost.” We’ve reached out to Plex for comment.

Plex first launched its cloud-based media server in 2016 as a way for users to easily access extra storage. Initially, users had to subscribe to Amazon Drive, which cost $59.99 a year…

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