# 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:** [27. Oktober 2014 um 22:35 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:** [31. Oktober 2014 um 22:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-many-forums-on-a-single-discourse-instance-with-a-single-database/21556/8 "2014-10-31T22:58:06Z")

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The `Guardian` class looks very interesting. Perhaps that could be extended to include the concept of restricting access to subsets of the database? Separate set of scoping tables, only used when the multi-forum feature is turned on.

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