September 14, 2022
Tom Humbarger
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Hosted Apache Solr announced that they are shutting down on October 31, 2022. This means that all customers will need to find a replacement for their hosted Solr deployments before that date.
The managed Solr offering from SearchStax is one of the recommended options to replace Hosted Apache Solr and this blog post looks at how to create an account, set up and connect SearchStax Cloud to Drupal.
We have identified that our SearchStax Cloud product, Dedicated Node on AWS with 1GB memory and 8GB storage option, would suffice for most Hosted Apache Solr customers. This option will cost $40 per month and can host multiple indexes.
To get started with SearchStax, you will have to sign up for a free trial. After you start your free trial, you can either create a deployment with the 14-day free trial or you can add your credit card details to create a paid account immediately.
Here are the steps to set up an account on SearchStax Cloud:
Once the deployment is created, you will receive a welcome email and an email informing you that your New Solr deployment is live which should take less than 10 minutes after you click the create button. The email will have links to your Cluster URL and Zookeeper Ensemble along with links to our product documentation.
During the free trial, we will send you additional informational emails and will send 2 warnings as you near the end of your free trial. Before your trial ends, you will need to convert it to a paid account to continue using our service.
You can find more information on integrating SearchStax Cloud with Drupal in our product documentation:
If you have any questions about SearchStax Cloud, you can submit a Support ticket directly from the application. Click on the Support button in the upper right-hand corner of the application to submit a request.
The SearchStax Cloud plan that will suffice for most Apache Hosted Solr customers is the $40 per month AWS deployment with 1G Memory and 8GB of Storage.
With a Dedicated plan from SearchStax, you will be able to host multiple indexes on the same installation which means your QA, Dev and Production indexes can run on the same SearchStax deployment as long as you stay within the Memory and Storage constraints. While this plan is more than the $10 per month plan from Hosted Apache Solr, you will not need a separate instance for each index.
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