# Anyone have experience running two separate Docker containers instead of the secondsite method?

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**Created:** [17 בנובמבר,‏ 2025,‏ 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-have-experience-running-two-separate-docker-containers-instead-of-the-secondsite-method/388628 "2025-11-17T05:40:39Z")
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> [@MikeNolan](#):
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> I just need to figure out how to get two containers running at the same time, if I rebuild one, it stops the other.

You need to make another yml file, like `app2.yml` and change all the stuff that conflicts with the other one.

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