ɳTV Cloud MAX

The MAX tier activates Cloud-only ɳTV features that are not available on self-hosted installs. These ride on top of the same free ɳTV plugin bundle you know, they're additive, not a rewrite.

What MAX enables

• Geo-distributed streaming edge: Your media is cached at 40+ edge PoPs. First-byte latency drops from ~150ms to ~20ms for viewers outside the origin region.
• Shared acquisition worker pool: Downloads run on a fleet we operate, not on your VPS. Acquisition speed is multiplied by the pool size (typically 10x).
• Hot / cold storage tiers: Recently-accessed media stays on SSD, rest tiers to S3-compatible cold storage at $0.004 per GB-month. Automatic promotion on first access.
• Dedicated transcoding queue: No contention with other customers for H.264/H.265/AV1 encoding jobs.
• EPG + metadata enrichment: Managed refresh of TMDB, TVDB, and EPG XMLTV feeds. Your library metadata is always current.

Activation

ɳTV Cloud MAX activates automatically when you subscribe to a MAX plan. Under the hood:

1. A signed capability token is written to your server's Hasura cloud_capabilities table with kind = "ntv_max"and your subscription ID.
2. The ɳTV plugin checks the token on startup and at each plugin request. When present, it routes acquisition, storage, and delivery through the Cloud control plane.
3. Edge distribution is enabled in your Nginx config. Cache headers are adjusted for multi-PoP delivery.

If you downgrade, the capability token is revoked. ɳTV falls back to its standard self-hosted mode with no data loss, all your library metadata, user accounts, and watchlists stay intact. Only the Cloud-only features turn off.

Cost model

MAX includes these monthly allowances:

• 1 TB of streaming bandwidth
• 100 GB hot storage
• 500 GB cold storage
• 1,000 transcoding minutes

Overage is reported to Stripe hourly and billed at the end of the cycle. See Billing for rates.