We have done just that, Lucene.Net runs on the web tier which is otherwise severely under-utilized hardware (all servers sat at under 10% CPU before we moved se

We have done just that, Lucene.Net runs on the web tier which is otherwise severely under-utilized hardware (all servers sat at under 10% CPU before we moved search to it). But, it will be moving again soon (we're actually discussing that today). I'll have a another post around this architecture shift for search and a few other things coming up.