Comments on: searchlight 2.1.0 nearly completed

By: Floren

Floren — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:50:23 +0000

Searchlight aims to improve the overall server performance by drastically reducing the MySQL usage. Searching is just a small bonus. The application is certainly not limited to a specific product like vBulletin. For example, I could eliminate all table locks generated by your current application, while reducing the server load... without any hardware changes. My goal is to offer a polyvalent product that can be used anywhere a heavy query is executed. Of course, Searchlight will allow you to implement a viable solution using only few lines of code. Once you take a look at the new presentation I will have with the new release, you will be very impressed and find the price very reasonable (based on what the product can do for a busy site).

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:23:38 +0000

At $2000/pop, you have dramatically overshot your target market. That’s an emotion price set by the guy who coded the product, not a realistic price designed to sell the product. Feel free to try to justify the price with frequent reference to cost avoidance, etc – but $2000 is not a reasonable price for an add-on to a $180 forum application.

I’m a software developer for a living, I am quite comfortable paying for things I need. At $2000, I definitely don’t *need* this, and I suspect you’ll soon discover many other potential customers don’t need it at that price point, either.

I would love to use it for a huge forum we host, but at that price… well… good luck.

By: Floren

Floren — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:54:44 +0000

In few weeks, still tweaking the classes. The price does not change, compared to previous version. I will have the website revamped, with a members area also.

By: DavidK

DavidK — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:51:20 +0000

So when will it be available and what is the price?

I’m not yet into the red on my server, but not far from it either. If the price is reasonable then I’d jump sooner rather than later.