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sphinx project went half-dead around that time, few years later it got revived but with closed source license. as far as i understand apparent death of sphinx and demand for contin…

manticore, earlier sphinx search, has been rock solid for us for the past 16 years. now serving searches across nearly 300M short documents. we're using it in the old mode - where …

HE is using plain stateless IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel - it's neither TCP nor UDP, it's not NAT'able. it's relatively simple for them to implement [ the stateless part ] but due to that p…

aspect worth noting: up to my knowledge HE's tunnel will work only if you're assigned public IPv4 by your ISP. if you're behind a carrier grade NAT - too bad, you'll need to use an…

environment: KVM VMs running on physical hardware managed by us. we have a belt & suspenders approach: * backups of selected files / database dumps [ via dedicated tools like mysql…

and elinks as well. it had better handling of page layout. http://elinks.cz/ + https://github.com/rkd77/elinks

Allegro has amazing metadata allowing you to precisely filter out the results. Search experience on amazon is an utter abomination compared to Allegro.

We're using BTRFS to host PostgreSQL and MySQL replication slaves. We're snapshoting drives holding data for both every 15 minutes, 1h, 8h and 12h and keep few snapshots for each f…

Also - thanks to that FIDO2 does not seem to be usable with Microsoft's MS365 services [ Teams, Outlook, Excel etc ] on Android or iOS. there's no way to provide pin for the securi…

coincidentally - we've been using first sphinx and then manticore for over 15 years as well. in our case it's fed each night with XML generated by Java code from data stored in MyS…

borg is great. we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers, database dumps and VM images. average size of each borg repo is few GB…

if you're running your test over the internet [ fluctuating latency, some packet losses ] - try enabling BBR [1] tcp congestion control algorithm on the sender side to utilize the …

I use it at work. Sphinx search has been powering our text search since the inception in 2008 and was scaling greatly. In 2021 we've moved from to Manticore without any hiccups. It…

i've been using BTRFS since 2014 to store backups. there is a noticeable performance penalty when rsync'ing hundreds of thousands of files to a spinning-rust disk connected to USB-…

https://manticoresearch.com/ is the lively, open source, fork of Sphinxsearch. that's where some of the earlier developers from the project moved to. it's used as a text-search bac…

probably related news from Dell: "NOTE 1: 13G, select 12G, and select DSS server BIOS files have been pulled from http://dell.com/support . This note and article will be updated as…

That's what I've gathered based on the online discussions: Possible reasons why the original project stagnated: [0]. Mention of the manticoresearch as a fork project was removed fr…

It's worth mentioning that the original Sphinxsearch project has been stagnant for the past year. There's a new lively fork - https://manticoresearch.com/ Beyond being a user of bo…