It restarts automatically, in the case that it crashes. It starts automatically when Windows starts, this means that Windows can install updates automatically and reboot, and is not a problem. It doesn't require a logged in user, thus less CPU and RAM, thus less electricity consume and fan noisy. Running Plex media server as a service has different advantages: AlwaysUp: Not free and clearly close source, native binary, generic solution for any application. SrvAny: Free and close source, native binary, generic solution for any application, produced from Microsoft but not as good as NSSM. NSSM: Free and close source, native binary, generic solution for any application. PMService: Free and open source, requires. Plex is a great media server but on Windows it can't run as a service natively, to run it as a service requires a service wrapper like: This script has been inspired from the PMS as a service updater script. If you think they should address this please up-vote the feature request here (requires a PlexPass, which you should ideally get if you use Plex).Powershell script to update Plex media server when configured to run as a service This post brought to you by the letter Q and the number 5. Click the UP arrow next to “This PC” and double-click Local, Plex Media Server, Updates. Windows start button, type %APPDATA% and hit enter Mine had about 27 folders in it each with files, stuff, etc. Ideally it’ll look like this, squeaky clean. \\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Updates The path is the path of the user logged in while Plex is running, in my case, me: 
So I deleted them all and got back my 6GB of space. But I assure you the likelihood of me needing an installer for that from 2015 is pretty low… So just a little poking around revealed that Plex Media Server has been hoarding disk space by keeping all previous downloads of the installer/updater on disk. So I noted the other day my Plex server, which I adore BTW, was running a tad shy on disk space.
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