Emby

Emby is a feature-rich personal media server designed to organize, stream, and manage your entire media collection. With automatic conversion and streaming capabilities, it delivers your personal videos, music, photos, and live TV to any device with seamless playback. Supporting transcoding, mobile sync, and comprehensive library management, Emby has become a popular alternative to Plex, offering similar functionality with more flexibility and control for self-hosted deployments.

Common Use Cases

Home users deploy Emby to centralize their media collections, streaming content to TVs, phones, tablets, and computers throughout their homes. Families utilize parental controls to create safe viewing environments for children with content restrictions and viewing schedules. Cord-cutters leverage live TV and DVR functionality to replace traditional cable subscriptions. Power users appreciate the extensive plugin ecosystem, detailed metadata management, and transcoding capabilities for optimal playback on any device.

Key Features

• Automatic media transcoding and streaming to any device
• Live TV and DVR support with recording management
• Mobile sync for offline viewing on smartphones and tablets
• Parental controls with content restrictions and viewing schedules
• Chromecast support for easy casting to TVs
• Comprehensive metadata management with artwork and descriptions
• DLNA support for network device discovery and streaming
• Plugin system for extended functionality
• User management with individual libraries and permissions
• Hardware acceleration support for efficient transcoding
• Cloud sync for backup and remote access
• Multi-library support (movies, TV, music, photos)
• Web-based administration interface
• Native apps for all major platforms

Why deploy Emby on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Emby on Hostinger VPS provides dedicated resources for smooth transcoding and streaming to multiple concurrent users without performance degradation. The VPS environment ensures 24/7 availability so your media is always accessible from anywhere, with reliable uptime unaffected by home power outages or internet issues. You benefit from enterprise-grade network speeds for buffer-free streaming even at high bitrates, sufficient bandwidth for serving multiple streams simultaneously, and dedicated CPU resources for hardware-accelerated transcoding. Hostinger's infrastructure offers better upload speeds than residential connections for remote streaming, while persistent storage protects your carefully organized media libraries and metadata. The isolated environment provides enhanced security for your personal media collection with professional-grade network infrastructure.