apache solr as a service hosting

Question

are you aware of the best companies which provide apache solr AS A SERVICE? where i can simply upload (or edit via some web control panel) my index and config files for SOLR and simply start using it

i do not want to be breaking my head with any sort of server administration on tomcat

just update my index and config files... tell solr where to look for data to index (via data import handlers) and thats it just start using it

any sort of load balancing / mirrors would be like icing on the cake

price does not matter as its for mission critical apps

please do not suggest me to boot up my own servers on amazon or rackspace or xyz and then deploy solr on them and manage all the administration - because thats what i want to avoid in the first place completely

thanks in advance

Solution 1

I wanted to update this post from 2011 now that it's 2017! Today for folks looking for pure self service and simple Solr search we continue to recommend www.websolr.com. If you are looking for a managed complete Solr instances + some nice search analytics capability, then we've used SearchStax very successfully.

Solution 2

there is also this one: http://www.opensolr.com/

Opensolr proposes 3 types of Solr instances :

• CMS instances (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, eZ Publish, Typo3)
• API instance (RESTful Web service) with fully customizable configuration files
• Web sites Crawler instances

There is a free account (i think it can be used actually only for test the platform), and the price for the other kind of account is cheap (4$/8$ a month for medium accounts)

(i didn't try it yet, but it seems promising)

Solution 3

If you use Drupal, there is also Midwestern Mac's Hosted Apache Solr service, which works with Drupal 6 and 7, and all the different Solr integration modules. (Disclaimer: I'm the owner of Midwestern Mac—let me know what you'd like to see and I'll try to make it happen!).

Solution 4

Just to expand horizons.

please do not suggest me to boot up my own servers on amazon or rackspace or xyz and then deploy solr

You can go with ready to use:
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch.
Cloudsearch provides simple API.

And more and more hosted Elastic Search solutions appears recently. I think it's because of cloud ES nature (easy to maintain search cloud).
http://indexisto.com
http://qbox.io
But of course this is the matter of how sticky are you with SOLR.

Solution 5

These guys also so hosted Solr.
https://www.hosted-solr.com/?locale=en

They also have a custom extension that integrates Solr into TYPO3 CMS.
http://www.typo3-solr.com/en/home/

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