Add the ability to host the server on two separate computers on the same network. I think if it could recognize that the server is being set up on the same network(IP) then it should give us the ability to connect it to the same server. Giving the ability to split the workload to two separate machines. Or even if it was outside the network. Image how this would benefit larger Plex servers.
This is a duplicate request. The ability to distribute workload (“load-balancing”) has been requested before.
Can you link to an active request. I found many people talking about this feature for years but typically don’t go anywhere or taken seriously.
All feature request threads are “active”, as long as they are not closed.
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 …
Load-balanced shared libraries so that a Plex client can select from a group of shared Plex Media Servers the server with the fewest number of active remote sessions.
Let's say I have two friends (Joe and Bob) sharing their libraries with me. Each one of those friends has the same video I want to watch. When I fire up Plex to watch the video the client would see that Joe's server has other remote connections so it would automatically pull the video from Bob's server that isn't busy.
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That’s sad
Nope. I will close duplicates.
tom80H
January 14, 2021, 4:13pm
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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
one from 2014 and another from 2015. So basically we should make more 
