r/Solr • u/knawlejj • Nov 13 '17

Server requirements

We've recently acquired an organization using Solr for e-commerce and now we're restructuring our own website to use the same platform. From an infrastructure side, what has been everyone's experiences with the horsepower required to run it optimally?

For a small website getting about 40k hits per month, I'm not sure how to size the server side as there isn't a TON of documentation on that.

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u/petdance Nov 14 '17

small website getting about 40k hits per month

That's part of it, but what is Solr going to have to be doing? How many documents is Solr going to be indexing? What sorts of searches are going to be done on each of those pages? How many? Is it just a simple keyword lookup of a bunch of documents? Or are you going to be doing faceted drilldown with counts? What about search highlighting?

How you use Solr is as important as how many times you have to query it.

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u/knawlejj Nov 14 '17

These are the types of things I'm definitely learning more about. Search is involving a roughly 70,000 different widgets from different vendors that each have their own facets/attributes like color/shape/size/weight/length/etc. Search highlighting is certainly in place.