# \[REQUEST\] Transcoding agents. **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [July 28, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-transcoding-agents/39291 "2013-07-28T18:12:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-transcoding-agents/39291/47 "2021-03-21T23:49:07Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681): > > 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/request-transcoding-agents/39291)._