# Discourse High Availability setup multi master

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-high-availability-setup-multi-master/147371>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 9, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-high-availability-setup-multi-master/147371 "2020-04-09T03:47:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![MicWit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/micwit/32/176301_2.png) [@MicWit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MicWit)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-high-availability-setup-multi-master/147371/1 "2020-04-09T03:47:20Z")

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Hi,

I have never used Discourse before (I have used PHPBB) but am looking at the option for future forums as I like the interface. At the moment I run PHPBB through reseller hosting on a cpanel account. Of course this won’t work for Discourse, so I am looking at running it how I am running a few other services.

Both myself and a few mates run ProxMox servers at our own homes. I have set up a container on ProxMox that essentially runs as a DDNS back to my cPanel account and updates sub-domains as required. For HA I then have the same on my mates servers and a PHP script on a cron job on the cPanel server points all the domains to where ever is live. Those subdomains then hit a Reverse Proxy on the ProxMox server and are sent to the container required. We are about to set up a MySQL server as a container that will sync across the internet between servers (we can potentially use this as load balancing as its a multi-master setup).

If we are to use Discourse, I would need something similar set up. Is it possible to set up Discourse across (potentially slow) an internet connection to sync 2 instances and use both as masters?

Thanks

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