# Help - Multiple Annotators setup

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/help-multiple-annotators-setup/3343>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, solved, aws, server\
**Created:** [August 28, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/help-multiple-annotators-setup/3343 "2020-08-28T13:02:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/help-multiple-annotators-setup/3343/4 "2020-08-28T18:12:17Z")

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Ah, sorry if the terminology I used was confusing! What I meant was the session/instance/process. There are generally two ways you could set this up and it depends on your project, annotators and how you want to set up the workflow:

1. Start one Prodigy process one a given host/port per annotator and save the annotations to separate datasets. For example, on port `8080`, you start the Prodigy server with 100 documents and save to `annotations_andrew`, on port `8081` you start Prodigy with the next 100 documents and save to `annotations_ines`, and so on.
  - **Pros:** very straightforward, easy to keep a separation between the work, no problem to update a model in the loop because every annotator has their own model instance and there are no conflicts
  - **Cons:** you have to run multiple processes (could be automated with a script but there is more going on), it's harder to share state between the sessions because process 1 doesn't know what process 2 has queued up

2. Start Prodigy once and have multiple annotators access the same process using named sessions. For example, you would be accessing the app with `?session=andrew`.
  - **Pros:** you only have to start one process, it's easier to send out examples to a different session based on shared state
  - **Cons:** can be harder to reason about because there's more state and more things influencing each other, harder to share a model in the loop because you have multiple people potentially updating it in different directions

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