# Anyone Using a Load Balancer for Plex Media Server

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [November 30, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anyone-using-a-load-balancer-for-plex-media-server/169061 "2016-11-30T15:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![skraatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@skraatz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/skraatz)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anyone-using-a-load-balancer-for-plex-media-server/169061/1 "2016-11-30T15:21:28Z")

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I would like to know if anyone is using a Load Balancer to distribute the Plex load on servers on the backend. I want to connect a F5 load balancer using one public IP address and port then distribute that to multiple servers behind based on resources available to the the server.  
This way I only have to see one server in the list however it will distrbute the load (RAM, Video, etc.) on the backend.

I am currently using a Netpp storage Filer for all file hosting.

Thanks for any insight to issues you might of had during the setup.

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**Author:** ![stkschw\_gmail.com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@stkschw\_gmail.com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/stkschw_gmail.com)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anyone-using-a-load-balancer-for-plex-media-server/169061/2 "2016-12-29T07:34:40Z")

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Load balancing refers more to switching equipment than leveraging multiple computing systems to quickly achieve tasks. What you want is a cluster, which will optimally make use of load balancing in order to efficiently use resources. Windows Server OS has clustering features.

Without formal training in these topics, that’s as far as I can help you.

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**Author:** ![automattic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@automattic](https://forums.plex.tv/u/automattic)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anyone-using-a-load-balancer-for-plex-media-server/169061/3 "2017-02-23T23:38:29Z")

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Were you ever able to get Plex working with an f5 load balancer? I want it to round robin connections externally.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/anyone-using-a-load-balancer-for-plex-media-server/169061/4 "2020-01-07T22:19:03Z")

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