I have a lot of doubts about my website becoming successful and would like a simple, cheap remote hosting solution for Apache Solr that I can get out of to use with the Search API module. Are there any companies that provide this service?

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drunken monkey
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I personally am not aware of any, yet. However, there is work on integration with Acquia search, so that should be available in about a month or two.

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Adam S commented

I tried talking to a sales rep at Acquia this afternoon and didn't even get that much. How do I go about finding this information? If I had to guess the difference between Search API and Apache Solr Search Integration modules is that one indexes entities and the other just nodes which means building on the eRecruiter profile the Apache Solr Search module will not help me. I successfully built an instance of Apache Solr on my Windows machine by copying the config XML files, however, setting up entire VPS might be out of my league.

I don't think I have many options other than hire someone to set a VPS for a website that may or may not work, try and use the database instead of Solr for the index or wait for one of the few Solr server hosting companies to adopt the Search API module.

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I don't think I have many options other than hire someone to set a VPS for a website that may or may not work, try and use the database instead of Solr for the index or wait for one of the few Solr server hosting companies to adopt the Search API module.

I don't know you concrete situation, what amounts of data, performance requirements, etc., you are facing, but using Database search for now might really be a solution there. The latest Beta should work fine. (To be sure, you should set all created tables to use the "utf8_bin" collation, though.) And, after all, one of the basic principles of the Search API is that switching backends should be as painless as possible. So once Acquia Search integration (or some other one) is done, you can switch to Solr.

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Adam S commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I will use the database for the server to start which I just tested. In my researching I found this company, websolr, who might be able to configure a hosted Solr server to use.

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Status: Closed (won't fix) » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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pingers commented

Seems like not much progress for acquia search support - https://network.acquia.com/node/1849109#comment-60170

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Silicon.Valet commented

Just a note, I've got several cheap ec2 t1.micros serving solr instances. Ping for AMI if interested, I have configs for D6/D7 ApacheSOLR module and Search API module (different schema/config)

The free usage tier includes a t1.micro monthly use. It's plug and play.