Only half kidding, but you've heard of processes right? :) Plex for example starts many transcoder instances within a single container for scalability. You don

Only half kidding, but you've heard of processes right? :) Plex for example starts many transcoder instances within a single container for scalability. You don't _need_ to scale at the container level. There's pros and cons to each approach, but for the self-hosting crowd keeping the deployment simple may broaden your audience. A good example I have experience with is vaultwarden: people use it because it's a single container deployment as opposed to the complex and resource intensive setup bitwarden provides.