# How to create 1000 subcategories in a scalable way?

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**Created:** [July 28, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-1000-subcategories-in-a-scalable-way/18158 "2014-07-28T03:38:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-1000-subcategories-in-a-scalable-way/18158/11 "2014-07-28T16:49:36Z")

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Thanks! I’m still trying to figure this out, but multisite might be good for my use case. I think you could use postgres schemas to mitigate some of the resource overhead. And you also would need to make some tables shared by all schemas, though. So maybe I should try to hack the multisite plugin rather than creating a new category plugin.

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