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For anyone who would like to take Solr for a spin, I invite you to check out nzadrozny's and my startup: http://websolr.com/ http://websolr.com/ We are a boots
by fizx 16y ago
For anyone who would like to take Solr for a spin, I invite you to check out nzadrozny's and my startup: http://websolr.com/ http://websolr.com/
We are a bootstrapped startup providing managed Solr hosting in the cloud (currently EC2). We're all about making the operational side of high performance Solr hosting as one-click easy as possible, so developers can focus their time on doing cool stuff with it.
We love HN and are frequent commenters/lurkers around here, so we made a "HN10" coupon which you can use on signup to get a month of our Silver plan for free.
- thorax 16y agoI really like the idea of this service. The difficulty is, I'm not seeing any "Getting Started with Websolr" guide to understand how difficult it is to get working with you. Where would that be? In my ideal world you would have a demo instance or two where we could connect/query arbitrary test data to understand performance/behavior/etc before we signed-up to host real data there.
- nzadrozny 16y agoYeah, great points. Thanks for your feedback! Better general documentation is pretty high on our list right now. To answer your immediate question: we started as a Heroku add-on, so you might take a glance at our documentation there (http://docs.heroku.com/websolr http://docs.heroku.com/websolr). It's targeted at Rails applications using Sunspot, so ymmv. We're working on creating and compiling similar guides for other platforms as well. Seems like it's high time for us to do a "review my startup" post… ;)