I’d like to open a discussion on the best practices for performing core maintenance tasks on a Discourse instance while minimizing or eliminating downtime. Tasks like changing critical resource settings (e.g., UNICORN_WORKERS, DISCOURSE_SIDEKIQ_WORKERS, DISCOURSE_DB_POOL) or applying major updates …

How to Perform Major Discourse Maintenance with Minimal Downtime?

Ethsim2 (Ethan ) September 5, 2025, 9:05pm 3

can you have two data containers on failover?

do you use a usually have separate vm for data?

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