Maybe it's too much to manage without a corporate sponsor, as you say... But what about a cloneable AWS instance which people can then take responsibility for themselves? Or a set of VM's that could be downloaded? Or a Docker?
I haven't done this so there may be roadblocks I'm unaware of - and I haven't looked at the cost of keeping the VMs somewhere for download... Although, quite honestly if someone had told me it was $25 to ship a usb drive with the VM's on it I would have paid it without hesitation if I could have prevented the weeks of hair-pulling I went through... but my thought is: - Build AWS Instance so that it's cloneable and set up correctly (at free level if possible, at minimal viable level if not) - Turn it off but make the ability to clone it available publicly - Interested parties can then clone and run their own copy - (hopefully at the free level, or for a small amount of money since they'll only be running it for a few hours at a time) - If necessary - add a tutorial that explains exactly how to clone and get it running... (Yes, it adds AWS to the mix which adds complexity and so may not be good) Alternatively - provide a VirtualBox VM (or set of VMs) that are downloadable (don't care if it takes overnight) -- Or a Docker image... I get that it's a little complex - especially if you want a "real" minimal cloud setup which I would consider to be 3 Zookeeper VM's plus 2-3 Solr VMs... It may be too much, but that's what I've been wondering about for the last year or so... On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 September 2016 at 21:47, John Bickerstaff > <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > > One thing I'd like to suggest is that I believe the ideal tutorial does > not > > require someone to even install the software. > > Well, if somebody would just agree to run a hosted read-only instance > of Solr we could totally do that by doing a tutorial that links to a > separate pre-built collection for each step. That would be extra > awesome because people could run alternative live queries against > those instances. And with collections being read-only, there is no > need to reset them or do any other management. Just initial setup and > ongoing bandwidth. > > Unfortunately, I do not want to run that as an individual and no > corporate sponsors have come through yet (I talked to several). > > Regards, > Alex. > > ---- > Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: > http://www.solr-start.com/ >
