I would not use Solaritas unless for very rudimentary solutions and prototypes.
Sent from my Mobile device 720-256-8076 On May 6, 2012, at 6:02 AM, András Bártházi <and...@barthazi.hu> wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > 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). > > Do you think is it a good idea? > > Do you know services using Solritas as a frontend on a public site? > > 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. > > Thanks, > Andras
