# Hosting many forums on a single Discourse instance with a single database

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-many-forums-on-a-single-discourse-instance-with-a-single-database/21556>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [10월 27, 2014, 10:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-many-forums-on-a-single-discourse-instance-with-a-single-database/21556 "2014-10-27T22:35:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jmay/32/108427_2.png) [@jmay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmay)\
**Post date:** [10월 27, 2014, 10:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-many-forums-on-a-single-discourse-instance-with-a-single-database/21556/1 "2014-10-27T22:35:32Z")

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I’m trying to understand if this is possible with a typical Discourse installation. I’ve read the topics that discuss multi-site installs - this seems to involve setting up a separate database instance for every subdomain.

I’m interested in hosting a large number (hundreds or thousands) of small (~dozens of participants, peak volume likely tens of messages per day) forums. Would be nice if possible to do this without needing to create a separate database for each forum. Thinking about Discourse as an alternative to creating lots of teeny Yahoo/Google groups.

If this is not possible out-of-the-box, is this a feasible customization challenge?

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