XenForo ES

[MattW]

At what point does a site benefit from having ES installed?

I'm just under 230,000 posts, but have 2GB ram spare on the VPS I have.

Would I really see a benefit from ES? A lot of members actively use the search, so any improvements would be welcomed.

 

[RobParker]

How long does a typical search take?

If it's more than a second then ES will likely be faster. Our searches were taking 3 or 4 seconds to complete but with ES they're pretty much instantaneous.

 

[Mike]

Strictly speaking, any site will benefit from ES by getting rid of MySQL's limitations and stopword list. (Obviously you can change these, but then you'll start running into performance issues sooner.)

 

[MattW]

How long does a typical search take?

If it's more than a second then ES will likely be faster. Our searches were taking 3 or 4 seconds to complete but with ES they're pretty much instantaneous.

If I search for a fairly common word, such as Astra, the on screen loading on the first search seems to take around 2 seconds to come back with the results.

Strictly speaking, any site will benefit from ES by getting rid of MySQL's limitations and stopword list. (Obviously you can change these, but then you'll start running into performance issues sooner.)

Thanks Mike, off to the customer area I go

 

[Paul B]

We have about 180k posts Matt and are using ES.

Give it a go and see how it compares.

http://cliptheapex.com/community/search/?type=post

 

[MattW]

We have about 180k posts Matt and are using ES.

Give it a go and see how it compares.

http://cliptheapex.com/community/search/?type=post

Nice, that is fast! I'm bought it and currently setting it up on the test server first

 

[Paul B]

Our server is pretty fast too so that helps
Thanks to the person who set it up

 

[MattW]

All up and running

 

[estranged]

Is this compatible with Turkish letters like ş ç ü ğ ö etc?

 

[Paul B]

Yes / evet.

http://xenforo.com/community/search/3300178/?q=Is this compatible with Turkish letters like ş ç ü ğ ö etc?&t=post&o=date

 

[CTXMedia]

I particularly like the stemming capability - catches a few more results than the default absolute MySQL word searching, making the results a bit more useful to us mere mortals.

 

[MattW]

I particularly like the stemming capability - catches a few more results than the default absolute MySQL word searching, making the results a bit more useful to us mere mortals.

Yeah, I've noticed this doing a few test searches, and it's making the result set a lot better than it was previously.

 

[CTXMedia]

I'm considering adding it to all my forums over the next couple of years - just can't justify the expense at the moment.

 

[MattW]

We've had a good month in our online shop, so I'm investing back into the forum.