Flying Sphinx (the Heroku add-on for Sphinx/Thinking Sphinx, which I run) does indeed cost. The cheapest plan available is $12/month (and given you’re not going to use delta indexing, that might be fine, depending on how much data you have).
I spent a lot of time figuring out pricing for Flying Sphinx when I launched it, and free plans just aren’t viable, as every customer requires RAM for their Sphinx daemon, and RAM is just not cheap enough to give away (unlike disk space, which is *far* cheaper). That said, yes, the plans are differentiated by disk space - because that’s easier to measure, and there is some correlation between how large your index files are (on disk) and how much RAM is required for the corresponding daemon. It’s the size of your index files that is relevant - so, if you’ve got this app hosted elsewhere currently, it should be easy enough to get the size of these files (locally, they’d be in db/sphinx/development). Hope this is helpful! Let me know if you’ve any further questions. — Pat > On 29 Jun 2015, at 11:53 am, C Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a question as I just recently started to read about deploying Thinking > Sphinx on Heroku. > > Is there an additional cost to have TS on Heroku? If so, what is the > additional cost. > > I have Delta currently setup with Sphinx but I will be removing it (don't see > the need for it with my app). I haven't started a plan with Heroku yet (will > be my first time using the service) but I am curious if there is indeed an > extra cost to run Thinking Sphinx. > > Any information would be greatly appreciated!! Just so I know what I am > getting into finically here! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx > <http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
