# Allow Cluster/Load Balancing Support
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-cluster-load-balancing-support/500569
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-cluster-load-balancing-support/500569 "2019-12-02T19:27:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@twasick](https://forums.plex.tv/u/twasick)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-cluster-load-balancing-support/500569/1 "2019-12-02T19:27:55Z")
I would like the ability to add a separate Daemon server that can help balance the load. Also creating the ability to have two (or more) Plex Media Servers replicate for resilience.
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### Author:  [@DJ-BrianC](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DJ-BrianC)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-cluster-load-balancing-support/500569/2 "2019-12-02T19:56:10Z")
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to add a gpu?
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### Author:  [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-cluster-load-balancing-support/500569/3 "2019-12-02T20:09:53Z")
Separate daemon server / load balancing / clustering is very “enterprise centric”.
Plex is for the home user.
I do not expect any traction to come of this request.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-cluster-load-balancing-support/500569/4 "2019-12-03T10:53:03Z")
A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.
> [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681/1):
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> I realize this is a longshot but right now my plex server is a quad socket system and it's barely keeping up with user load, looking at 8 socket systems and they are just astronomically expensive which got me thinking about the huge surplus of cheap dual socket blade servers what if there was a way of scaling plex itself to have separate compute/transcode nodes instead of just having one giant server... so for example, you have one box running plex itself, then several slaved boxes that …
Therefore this one is closed.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-cluster-load-balancing-support/500569/5 "2019-12-03T10:53:10Z")