Support for Elastic's serverless offering

[MattStibbs]

Is it possible to use Enhanced Search with Elastic's new serverless offering?

Having created a text account, it seems like they only support API key authentication - whereas I believe Enhanced Search only supports username/password?

Is API Key auth on the roadmap at all?

Thanks!

 

[Anthony Parsons]

I've been down that road with third parties, and its expensive compared to just getting a VPS and running ES on that, connecting via https username and password.

 

[MattStibbs]

I've been down that road with third parties, and its expensive compared to just getting a VPS and running ES on that, connecting via https username and password.

I suspected that might be the case.

Issue is our current install is on a Cpanel shared host - so I don't think it's going to be possible to get Elasticsearch installed on that...

Therefore, at the moment I just have a cheap VPS set up running ES and Xenforo is connecting remotely - which is performing fine for the size of our forum, to be fair.

But just wondering if I can somehow take the headache out of running and securing the VPS as well...

 

[Anthony Parsons]

But just wondering if I can somehow take the headache out of running and securing the VPS as well...

Honestly, you could just lockdown this type of VPS so its only accessible via the VPS master command line, and a firewall blocking every other port except ES. HTTPS ES with a long, random, password, isn't being hacked, especially with all other ports blocked.

I've run sites on DigitalOcean and Linode, and I now run them on a local provider at a cheaper price than either of those two could offer, and I have more resources, 6 cores and 20GB RAM for about US$45 equivalent. I then have cpanel with Cpanel, not with the host, so I have full control, direct support to Cpanel, no host restrictions.

Options exist. I think 4 cores and 20GB Ram was more expensive than 6 and 20 for me. Options exist and good deals exist beyond major providers.