> Currently I am using thinking_sphinx, but to my dismay, a lot of hosts > do not have sphinx installed and are unwilling to install it "because > of security reasons".
Sounds like a lame excuse to me... > This leaves me with a very limited option of > hosting as I'd have to get a VPS/dedicated but I just don't have that > kind of money, so I'll have to stick to shared. SliceHost has a $20/mo option. If you're site isn't super big that would probably be enough... > Long story short, is there a good alternative to full text searching? MySQL has full text built in if you set up the tables a certain way. PostgreSQL has tsearch2, but unlikely your ISP will configure that if they won't configure sphinx. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
