<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#automatically-follow-other-instances">Automatically follow</a> instances from a public index
But some pars of PeerTube can be horizontally scaled to bypass the following limits, as described in our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/configuration#scalability">scalability guide</a>:
It has been created by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.davidrevoy.com/">David Revoy</a> (illustrations are under CC-BY).
The feature is called <a href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#instances-redundancy" target="_blank">"server redundancy"</a> and caches your most popular videos to help serve additional viewers.
Transcoding can also be offloaded to other machines using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/remote-runners">remote runners</a>.