# Optimize / Transcode content in parallel **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [February 26, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/optimize-transcode-content-in-parallel/547731 "2020-02-26T01:36:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![darcilicious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/darcilicious/32/3047_2.png) [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/optimize-transcode-content-in-parallel/547731/2 "2020-02-26T04:26:40Z")
Vote for this feature here: > [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681#top): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/optimize-transcode-content-in-parallel/547731)._