Hub for self-hosted website, store and in-app search on Meilisearch, Typesense or OpenSearch, and how catalog size, tenancy, data location and uptime needs change the build.
For online stores: typo-tolerant product search, facets and filters, synonyms and merchandising rules, keeping the index in sync with Magento, Saleor or Medusa catalogs, and how Meilisearch, Typesense and OpenSearch compare on large catalogs.
For docs sites, knowledge bases and developer portals: crawling or indexing content, versioned docs, search-as-you-type UIs, relevance tuning for code and headings, and self-hosting search next to a static docs site.
For SaaS products adding search to their app: isolating each customer's data with tenant tokens, scoped API keys or per-tenant indexes, permission-aware results, indexing pipelines from the application database and the RAM each design needs.
For teams adding semantic results to site search: hybrid search in Meilisearch, vector search in Typesense and OpenSearch, where embeddings come from, memory cost of vectors and how to measure whether results actually improve.
For agencies replacing hosted search on public sites: search across many department sites, accessibility of the search interface, hosting inside the government boundary, analytics on what citizens search for, and procurement of support.
For EU organizations that cannot send search queries and indexed content to US SaaS search: self-hosting Meilisearch, Typesense or OpenSearch in the EU, query logs as personal data, and transfer documentation.
For classified, industrial or offline environments: installing search engines from offline images, index updates without internet, model files for semantic search brought in by media, and integrating with internal identity providers.
Designing site search that stays up: Typesense Raft clusters of three or five nodes, OpenSearch node roles and replicas, Meilisearch replication options by edition, backups and snapshots, and zero-downtime reindexing.
A requirements checklist for self-hosted site search: functional must-haves, hosting and data residency, identity and access, privacy and retention, integrations, operations and support, so a team can compare self-hosted options before choosing a platform.
Questions to put in an RFP or vendor brief for self-hosted site search: platform and edition fit, licence obligations, migration of existing data, hosting model, security evidence, support terms after go-live and how the fixed scope is defined.
Cost structure for self-hosted site search: subscription pricing published by SaaS vendors against self-hosted infrastructure, implementation, support and internal staff time, which drivers move each line, and when bringing in an implementation partner costs less than building alone.
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