After did some initial reading it seems like to get ferret run consistent on a web server, a DRb server is required. I have just used the cheapest hosting package for my customers so far, so I wonder if those accounts would be able to run ferret. Anyone could state clear the requirement and setup required to run ferret?
Running Ferret?
- Goodwill
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Recently I have a customer approaching me to do a forum application. I am considering the possibility to provide full text search capability on the forum, and then I come across ferret.
After did some initial reading it seems like to get ferret run consistent on a web server, a DRb server is required. I have just used the cheapest hosting package for my customers so far, so I wonder if those accounts would be able to run ferret. Anyone could state clear the requirement and setup required to run ferret?
After did some initial reading it seems like to get ferret run consistent on a web server, a DRb server is required. I have just used the cheapest hosting package for my customers so far, so I wonder if those accounts would be able to run ferret. Anyone could state clear the requirement and setup required to run ferret?
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And heard ferret is not very stable, how about running Sphinx? Possible?
2008-04-03 12:40 PM
- William
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Yes - we'd recommend Sphinx. If its not on your server have support install it. You need to have dedicated memory on your account in order to run the Drb server, however.
2008-04-03 12:46 PM
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Ok if I am using Sphinx do you mean I still need dedicated memory options or just Ferret DRb needs that? And if I have to buy dedicated memory, any figure I can referenece to find out how much memory I need so I could calculate the cost?
2008-04-03 01:01 PM
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You'll need just 1 50MB block to run Sphynx, it takes much less memory than ferret and will be more stable for you.
2008-04-03 01:25 PM
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I have did some further research and found I can actually use mysql built in full text search indexing. What are the difference between sphinx and using the built in full text search? If I can do it in database level, maybe thats going to be simple enough for me :)
2008-04-03 10:18 PM
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And I did further research, seems MySQL full text search has to trade off the ability to do transaction because FTS requires MyISAM tables. PostgreSQL has native support to FTS on 8.3 or on 8.2.x via tsearch plugin, I want to know if thats feasible for me to use PostgreSQL installed on this server (which is 8.2.5 as I found in phpPgAdmin) and with tsearch, or any plan to upgrade to PostgreSQL 8.3?
2008-04-03 11:04 PM
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No plans to upgrade to 8.3 because of cPanel - but have support get you setup with the tsearch plugin and you should be able to roll with it.