# Transcoder Assistant Helper Service **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** server-windows, server-mac, server-linux, server-asustor, server-synology\ **Created:** [August 26, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcoder-assistant-helper-service/627497 "2020-08-26T22:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![FordGuy61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FordGuy61](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FordGuy61)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcoder-assistant-helper-service/627497/2 "2020-08-26T23:00:39Z")
Same as this? > [@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/transcoder-assistant-helper-service/627497)._