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Subject: Re: Solritas in production
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Hi,

Solritas (Velocity Response Writer) is NOT intended for production use. =
The simple reason, apart from that it is not production grade quality, =
is that it requires direct access to the Solr instance, as it is simply =
a response writer. You MUST use a separate front end layer above Solr =
and never expose Solr directly to the world. So you should feel totally =
comfortable continuing to use Solr over HTTP from PHP!

--
Jan H=F8ydahl, search solution architect
Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com

On 6. mai 2012, at 14:02, Andr=E1s B=E1rth=E1zi wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> We're currently evaluating Solr as a Sphinx replacement. Our site has
> 1.000.000+ pageviews a day, it's a real estate search engine. The
> development is almost done, and it seems to be working fine, however =
some
> of my colleagues come with the idea that we're using it wrong. We're =
using
> it as a service from PHP/Symfony.
>=20
> They think we should use Solritas as a frontend, so site visitors will
> directly use it, so no PHP will be involved, so it will be use much =
less
> infrastructure. One of them said that even mobile.de using it that way =
(I
> have found no clue about it at all).
>=20
> Do you think is it a good idea?
>=20
> Do you know services using Solritas as a frontend on a public site?
>=20
> My personal opinion is that using Solritas in production is a very bad =
idea
> for us, but have not so much experience with Solr yet, and Solritas
> documentation is far from a detailed, up-to-date one, so don't really =
know
> what is it really usable for.
>=20
> Thanks,
>  Andras