Thank you very much Doug. I was thinking of putting Solr on a separate server, but I did not expect you to so strongly recommend Jetty. I think I would stick to the embedded Jetty, because I don't need the security. I'm using Solr 4.10.3 at the moment, so I'm not familiar with Solr 5.
Thanks again, O. O. Doug Turnbull wrote > 1. Unless usage is very light, you likely want Solr to be on a different > server. Its going to have different caching and system needs than your web > app. You may also want to scale Solr independently from your web app. > Think > of it just like you think of a database-- do you want your MySQL instance > on the same server as your web app? For all but simple uses, I'd say no. > You want it separate so you can tune performance differently. > > 2. Most HTTP clients have a way for keeping the underlying socket > connection alive. So "open a connection" likely won't happen. You can feel > safe in relying on SolrJ or any other reasonable HTTP-based client > communicating to Solr from your web app. > > Also, I always discourage suggesters that work on "every keypress". You > probably want a number of keypresses and a timeout to avoid overloading > your Solr servers. Or if you truly want that, be aware that it may come > with some performance issues. > > 3. I would seriously steer away from anything but Jetty. Also, doesn't > Solr > 5 not even give you a choice? Go with the defaults, they are tested well. > If you want to wrap it behind a security layer, then proxy Solr with > something like nginx (https://github.com/o19s/solr_nginx). > > The readme at that github repo captures our philosophy for deploying a > Solr > box with default Jetty fronted by nginx for some sane security > > Hope that helps, > -Doug > > -- > *Doug Turnbull **| *Search Relevance Consultant | OpenSource Connections, > LLC | 240.476.9983 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com > Author: Taming Search <http://manning.com/turnbull> from Manning > Publications > This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be > Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless > of whether attachments are marked as such. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Integrating-Solr-with-an-existing-web-application-and-SolrJ-tp4202611p4202621.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
