I've been working on an open source search engine (https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense) and this exact deliberation ha

I've been working on an open source search engine (https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense) and this exact deliberation has been on my mind. Ideally, one could offer both on-premise and hosted versions (like Gitlab), but that's really tricky and needs a lot of resources to pull off successfully.