# Multi-Computer, Single Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [September 2, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multi-computer-single-server/455799 "2019-09-02T06:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**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:** [September 2, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multi-computer-single-server/455799/4 "2019-09-02T08:20:28Z")
All feature request threads are “active”, as long as they are not closed. > [@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 … > [@\[Feature Request\] Load-balanced Shared Libraries](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-load-balanced-shared-libraries/95542/1): > > 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.     T… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multi-computer-single-server/455799)._