# ​Is it possible to load balance source streams from encoders?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-balance-source-streams-from-encoders/50798>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-balance-source-streams-from-encoders/50798 "2018-02-20T01:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_mcqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@john\_mcqueen](https://community.wowza.com/u/john_mcqueen)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-balance-source-streams-from-encoders/50798/1 "2018-02-20T01:55:10Z")

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Is it possible to load balance source streams from encoders?

Here is my scenario… I will have dozens of incoming streams that I would like to have all sent to one application on one server. I will also be doing some light transcoding on these streams. I would like to setup an encoder load balance scenario as well as a playback load balancing.

How would I load balance encoders?

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**Author:** ![Jay\_Charles1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jay_charles1/32/514_2.png) [@Jay\_Charles1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jay_Charles1)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-balance-source-streams-from-encoders/50798/2 "2018-02-20T16:05:32Z")

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Short answer, sure… it’s possible. The long answer depends on your encoder sources and your deployment environment. Can you provide more details?

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**Author:** ![john\_mcqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@john\_mcqueen](https://community.wowza.com/u/john_mcqueen)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-balance-source-streams-from-encoders/50798/3 "2018-02-20T16:30:20Z")

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Currently all encoder sources are RTMP streams from OBS. Eventually, I would like to have them all be WebRTC based sources. I am running WSE on a single EC2 instance.