I already have a server for one of my communities, using Hetzner Cloud. Since I’m just starting out, there’s not enough traffic yet and even when it starts growing, the initial traffic will not be enough that justifies 2 servers. I wanted to spend some time building the community without having to…

Yes you can, that’s called multisite: [afbeelding] Multisite configuration with Docker Self-Hosting warning While multisite is supported in the Discourse application, this is an advanced sysadmin setup. If you don’t know what you’re doing, do not set up multis…

It’s mentioned in the excerpt, but worth emphasizing: be aware that enabling multisite puts your installation in unsupported-install , which means developers and the community may be less willing to help with issues.

Great! Thank you for sharing the link. It seems a bit complex, but I’m sure that following the instructions and asking some questions to ChatGPT and Claude along the way to clarify some stuff, along with asking questions here on the forum, will allow me to achieve this. Since this is just an experi…

Migration might be trickier, I think you’d probably need to take a backup of both sites and then repeat the same steps. I’m not sure if rsync will work here. UPDATE: @alltiagocom By how the docs is phrased, I think you can add more than 2 sites: [afbeelding] Multisite configuration with Docker T…

Oh ok. I didn’t know that… Thanks for letting me know. This community really is a good source of help, and if saving $ puts me in a category where I may “break” that connection in some areas, I should consider if that’s the route or not…?

I’m really wondering if that’s a good route, with all the extra “quirks” and then not being able to maybe get help in certain areas, because then my configuration will be very specific? I need to think this through. At this point I do have at least 4 communities that could be created and that would…

Discourse multisite is very well tested, unless you have some customisations in place, there are seasoned people here who will be able to help with it. That being said, with a bit of perseverance you can set up two standalone discourse installs on same server too if need be.

I would suggest not mounting more than 2 on one server. @itsbhanusharma Do you know if there are performance impacts on more than that?

The only customization is really just the stuff we all talk about here. Components, plugins, etc. Nothing fancy. My goal was to really just being able to have separate communities asap, instead of waiting months to set them up separately. And of course, if I would pay $5 a month for 4 small communi…

[afbeelding] NateDhaliwal: I would suggest not mounting more than 2 on one server. Even if at the moment there’s no traffic at all, other than myself? Or when users start joining, but it’s maybe like 10 on each community?

One server for 2 Discourse communities?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 5 januari 2026 om 11:36 3

Yes you can, that’s called multisite:

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Success - New Multisite Install on Dedicated server using ServerPilot, Nginx and Apache Self-hosting	22	9683	28 juli 2020
Setup Multisite Configuration with Let's Encrypt and no Reverse Proxy Sysadmins how-to , domains	23	4584	8 mei 2025
Multiple app containers for a single Discourse site Self-hosting hosting	5	83	19 januari 2026
Will we ever be able to install Discourse on shared servers? Self-hosting	55	8297	16 juni 2018
Multiple discourse instances in a single server Support	7	4728	26 november 2020

One server for 2 Discourse communities?

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