# Allow Remote Server Transcoding **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-remote-server-transcoding/456519 "2019-09-03T18:01:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![FordGuy61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FordGuy61](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FordGuy61)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-remote-server-transcoding/456519/4 "2019-09-03T18:26:01Z")
> [@jiru443](#): > > If not, where do I post to get this feature requested? [https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions](https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions) Possibly an extension of the Distributed Transcoding request? The servers would have to have knowledge of each other to hand off transcoding. Also use knowledge of who “owns” each server to make decision on where to transcode media (not just based on load). > [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-remote-server-transcoding/456519)._