# Hosting Plan Suggestion for 500 Concurrent Online Users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-plan-suggestion-for-500-concurrent-online-users/131521
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-plan-suggestion-for-500-concurrent-online-users/131521 "2019-10-21T06:02:54Z")
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### Author: ![Remah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/remah/32/70590_2.png) [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-plan-suggestion-for-500-concurrent-online-users/131521/15 "2019-10-22T13:19:56Z")

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> [@Akshay\_Gadekar](#):
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> I want to set up different discourse for every city because it will need local moderators.

A separate Discourse instance for each city is likely to become an administration nightmare which is why I’d have look at using a category for each city.

If you use categories then you can have specific “moderators” for each category:

> [@Category Group Review/Moderation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478):
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> mega There have been many changes to this feature since first released. Check out [Category Moderator Improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-improvements/158628) for the latest details. In the latest builds of Discourse I’ve recently [merged a feature](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/404b35bd041362bd3d855e95f2bcba5791d16409) that some forums have been asking for some time now, the ability for regular non-staff users of a group to moderate and review content in specific categories. How to Use Enable the enable category group moderation site setting. It’s default to off. The site setting was called enable cate…

This sort of per city/state structure for a country has been discussed before so you should find some useful info:

> [@How to structure my forum?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-structure-my-forum/58609):
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> Hi All, Below is how I am planning to implement my forum. Could someone please guide me how to structure it? There are X no of states in my country. Each state has a seperate group and each group sub-divided into sub groups to represent cities. During registration user will enter his state and city. As per this he will be added to his respective groups and subgroups(state and city). Every group and subgroup has it’s own set of categories. Only users from the respective groups can work on thos…

> [@Cross discourse category hosting?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cross-discourse-category-hosting/111417):
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> Does discourse have the capability to host categories from other instances? Use case is a number of regional discourse instances for my cycling group with a central one that hosts all the regional content in their own categories. Or ability to tag topics for the central site.

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