Maintenance page workaround - can this be done?

Ok so you are encouraging having both, hence the “less heart ache”.
So, as non experienced person when it comes to this, having 2 containers doesn’t mean two instances of Discourse, I believe?

I’m reading the topic

and

to see if I can understand how much work it requires, and attention I need to have, so I don’t end up with something I can’t manage, making the process more problematic than all the other things that can go wrong with just one.