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Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers

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Automating Server Wake-Up with Wake-on-LAN for Plex Streaming

This chapter covers the speaker's innovative solution to remotely power on an old server for Plex streaming by using Nginx, custom error handling, and a PHP script to send a Wake-on-LAN request. It details the process of waking the server transparently using PHP, UDP sockets, and cron jobs for server operations and backups.

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