# Offload transcoding to another device **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [August 21, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/offload-transcoding-to-another-device/203223 "2017-08-21T02:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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 21, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/offload-transcoding-to-another-device/203223/3 "2017-08-21T12:26:21Z")
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 - search first if the request has already been posted before - only [one feature per post](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/46128/rules-for-this-forum-inc-how-to-vote#top "one feature per post") --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/offload-transcoding-to-another-device/203223)._