# Distributed transcoding for NAS/low power servers **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [March 2, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-for-nas-low-power-servers/137464 "2016-03-02T19:17:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-for-nas-low-power-servers/137464/11 "2018-08-13T09:43:04Z")
duplicate feature request > [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681/1): > > 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 … closing Please respect [the rules for this subforum](https://forums.plex.tv/t/about-the-feature-suggestions-category/273976/1 "the rules for this subforum") - **Search** first if the request has already been posted before. The goal is to collect the votes for a particular feature in one thread - not to scatter them around. - Please only one feature per post --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-for-nas-low-power-servers/137464)._