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Tweaking relevance is not super-easy with Solr. We designed IndexTank to have a very simple way to play with ranking. You can modify your formulas in your dashboard or through the API and see the results order change in real time.

I really love what you got here. I'd be happy to help you try out IndexTank and make it better. It would really take the Solr configuration burden off of you.

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Hi!

well I considered using IndexTank earlier on, especially because I didn't know yet how to deploy Solr. The relevance is mostly done already, I just needed to learn to use formulas :)

One thing that put me off is your cap in queries per day. The smallest paid plan (50k items in index) is capped at 1,000 queries per day.

Isn't that an issue for most sites ? Do people usually cache your results ?

The 1k cap for the 50k doc plan is old, we will be upping that significantly. What would be a number of queries per day that would make you comfortable?

That's a good news I think :)

I can't really tell yet, but my guess is that at least around the number of indexed documents could give a more usable subscription.

It would also be nice for people to know what happens if you go beyond the cap: do you offer some tolerance ?

We don't deny the service no matter how far beyond the cap you go. In case the cap is overpassed very often, we just contact the user.

Good to hear! Thanks for all those clarifications.

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