Aren't you concerned about having a single point of failure with this setup?
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Michael Ryan <mr...@moreover.com> wrote: > From a performance point of view, I can't imagine it mattering. In our > setup, we have a dedicated Solr server that is not a shard that takes > incoming requests (we call it the "coordinator"). This server is very > lightweight and practically has no load at all. > > My gut feeling is that having a separate dedicated server might be a > slightly better approach, as it will have totally different performance > characteristics than the shards, and so you can tune it for this. > > -Michael >