I finally took the time to install Discourse again. After evaluating where I am right now, and how much maintenance two containers seem to require, I believe I will stick to one for now, and if I need two containers in the future, I will revise everything being said here. Other than installing plugins, which doesn’t seem to be something I will need to do as often as managing components, the community being down for 20 minutes on a period of the day where fewer people are online, along with a banner letting people know that the community will be down a certain day and time, seems pretty reasonable for now.
Let’s see how it goes