Hi everyone; thank you for taking the time to reply.
Yes, my old site was WordPress, and it had a link to an open-source Simple Machines chat forum, via which - no matter how much security we put on - served as a back door to my website. The only fix was to shut down that Simple Machines site altogether.
My site is built on Squarespace now, and I’m trying to understand my options, regarding whether to host my chat forum on Discourse or on that.
My question regarding pageviews was raised because I’ve currently got about 3500 followers on FB, and if even only half of them come over to the new Discourse forum, I could easily imagine more than 100k pageviews just from the first day(s).