# 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:** [11월 3, 2014, 9:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-many-forums-on-a-single-discourse-instance-with-a-single-database/21556/15 "2014-11-03T21:25:53Z")

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I’m warming up to the idea of trying to do this entirely with categories and groups. That will entail:

- nesting categories more deeply (since I’m stealing the top level for the multiple forums)
- probably nesting groups
- moderator access tied to categories
- possibly tethering trust level to categories as well

I found another open feature request that relates to this:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators/11668](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators/11668)

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