It's really up to you. All any app needs to connect to Solr is the HTTP connection, even if you use something like SolrJ. Yes, there'll be some latency but I suspect you'll only really notice that if you're trying to index massive amounts of data across the wire.
Best Erick On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Spadez <james_will...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Call me crazy, but I don’t like the idea of having a single server which not > only runs my PHP site on Apache, but also runs SOLR and Nutch, inclusive of > Tomcat. > > Is it a terrible idea to have one Rackspace VPS account which runs the PHP > site with MYSQL database, and another rackspace account which runs Tomcat, > Solr and Nutch? Then access SOLR via HTTP from the PHP server. > > I know there may be some increase latency from the fact that there are two > servers, but it just seems like I might end up with a more stable platform > this way, and less prone to conflict. > > Regards, > > James > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Java-Server-and-PHP-server-tp3832290p3832290.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
