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Anthony Bouvier • Edited

Ah, gotcha, I was going off your Donation page on findlectures.com that mentioned Heroku Solr at $50/month.

So far so good with Google Cloud and Solr. There's a Bitnami Solr image that I used to get it all set up and with that credit I haven't paid anything yet (though I don't have your traffic of course).

Cool project by the way. :)

EDIT: Oh, looks like another article on dev.to talks about GC vs AWS so that might be handy for you: dev.to/bugfenderapp/google-cloud-p... if you haven't looked into it (not that you're using AWS for this, but insight anyway).

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Gary Sieling

Good point, I should update the donation page!

Memory use has been the big issue, rather than traffic. It seems like solr uses RAM proportional to disk space to run well (1-2x maybe?), so I've hit limits as I grow the index, but I'm still figuring that out.

Once I made it so you can search closed captions, and see what time in the video matched, the index started getting bigger a lot faster (that is timings + caption, and a non-timed version of the transcript).