Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

Re:Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less... by nzadrozny on Thursday April 12, 2012 @11:59AM (#3832893)

We think our prices actually compare pretty well to self-hosting. Hosting a search engine is not cheap when it comes to memory and disk IO, and I don't envy anyone trying to shoehorn production Solr traffic into a small VPS.

Not to mention, we've got transparent replicated redundancy on all our indexes—one of our better-kept secrets, I really need to update our marketing materials—so double your VPSs there.

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Re:Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less... by hkarthik on Thursday April 12, 2012 @01:08PM (#3833264)

After setting Solr up, I definitely see the value that you guys provide for high traffic sites. But there's a difference between production level needs and hobbyist level needs for a side projects.

For side projects I'd be okay with indexing being less aggressive, sizes being more restrictive, and response times being higher if that made the pricing more accessible.

I'd be happy to give you guys more money when I've got the traffic to justify it, but it'd be nice to be able to flip that on when I need it.

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