Not being an experienced developer (I would say I’m on the basic level, actually), trying the nginx solution to present a maintenance page was a bit of a nightmare. Today, I had this idea and decided to ask Claude if this would be possible, now that I use Railway for other websites and applications: …

And less heart ache :slight_smile:

Not sure if you were replying to me or to @Jagster ? What do you mean?

Because the process of bootstrapping the new container whilst your site remains online is much less stressful - if the build breaks you don’t have to panic and have all the time it takes to fix it without remaining offline.

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 [图片] Move from standalone container to separate web and dat…

Just want to praise sharing about the two containers setup. I was using one and it usually takes 3-5 minutes (on a dedicated server with 64GB of RAM). May I know, in clear and simple examples, when one should update both containers in a dual installation? I mean, which Discourse upgrades should res…

First you follow very simple instructions how to start 2-container. After that you mostly need only ./launcher bootstrap web_only && ./launcher destroy web_only && ./launcher start web_only ) 2>&1 | tee ~/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)-upgrade.log' tee part is only for logging, because browsing it is …

For example, this is the kind of comment that I can’t simply ignore, because it seems that updating/upgrading stops being as simple as clicking a button, but something that needs more focus and attention, which to an experienced person may seem easy and obvious, but maybe not for someone who’s not: …

Would you say that the instructions in this topic are still accurate in 2026, since that one was from 2015? I don’t mind trying it, since I just installed Discourse today again. Anything going wrong, I can just go back to one container. I just want to make sure that halfway through, I don’t do some…

[图片] Migrate quickly to separate web and data containers The two-container deployment saves a few minutes of downtime about once per month while updating, but does require more understanding, and requires that you manually follow the details in the announcements every new release. Few minutes …

维护页面的变通方法——这能做到吗？

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例如，这种评论是我不能简单忽视的，因为更新/升级似乎不再像点击按钮那么简单，而是需要更多的关注和留意。对于有经验的人来说，这可能看起来很容易、很明显，但对于没有经验的人来说，可能并非如此：

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