Managed Solr Providers

Managed Solr providers come in five kinds. The real difference is how much of the work stays with you: the servers, the configuration, and the search product your visitors use.

Who runs the servers and who builds the search product (crawling, search page, analytics), by kind of provider.

01 · The five kinds

• DIY on a cloud provider. Your own servers and your own Solr. Full control, and you are the Solr team.
• Container deployers. A stock Solr started for you. Configuration, tuning, security and upgrades stay with you.
• CMS-specialist hosts. Solr tuned for one CMS. Strong inside that ecosystem, thin outside it.
• Enterprise vendors. Managed Solr infrastructure sold through sales, with the search product sold separately or left to your team.
• Full search platforms. Managed Solr plus the search product on top. Opensolr: managed Solr hosting and Enterprise Site Search, all in one.

02 · Seven questions to ask any provider

• Can I edit schema.xml and solrconfig.xml myself? On Opensolr, yes, in the browser; saving reloads the index: Edit a file.
• Which Solr versions, and where? You pick the version and the place for each index, from a live list: Regions.
• Can I try it without talking to sales? Yes, on the free plan: Pricing.
• Is a search product included? Crawling, pushing your data, hybrid search, a hosted search page and a chat bot: Enterprise Site Search.
• Can I back up and restore myself? Yes, from the Backup tab, on plans with backups: Backups.
• Can I keep the index up when a server fails? With a resilient cluster: Standalone or cluster.
• Can I take my data with me? Download your backups and your config files whenever you want.

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