Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?
The instances that give the best results seem to also get throttled pretty often on the source search engines, to the point of near uselessness.
Thinking of hosting my own, but the maintenance seems pretty involved according to the docs.
What's your experience been like?
Edit: all right y'all, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to spin up an instance.
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BlameThePeacock
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •cosmicrose
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •mbirth 🇬🇧
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Als Antwort auf cosmicrose • • •root
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •some_kind_of_guy
Als Antwort auf root • • •Nice username btw lel
root
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Als Antwort auf root • • •root
Als Antwort auf Avid Amoeba • • •Avid Amoeba
Als Antwort auf root • • •fizzle
Als Antwort auf root • • •There's an open issue about this on github. It's the remote API is only recognising the first word of your query.
This has been bugging me too.
The timeouts are because the engines are presenting captchas. There's a work around whereby you use your instance as a proxy, navigate to that remote engine, and do the captcha.
These two issues are a real pain in the ass so while I do presently have a searxng instance I've been using qwant the last few weeks because I'm just over it.
Engywook
Als Antwort auf root • • •irmadlad
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •mögen das
DaGeek247 mag das.
webghost0101
Als Antwort auf irmadlad • • •Navidrome❤️
It is so undervalued for how amazing streaming your own music collection is.
irmadlad
Als Antwort auf webghost0101 • • •It is indeed. Even yesterday, I was in the kitchen making my 'world famous' Italian Seasoning bread with 7 natural herbs and spices. I have an old phone I use just for the WiFi, pulled up my Navidrome instance, set the phone up in the window sill, put my headphones on, and had a good time. I was even inspired to make some fudge.
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isgleas
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •I have it setup on each of my laptops, so I have it available at all time with no need to expose it on my home setup.
Automatically start the container on my laptop, and add it to my browser's search engines as default. Pretty simple.
thagoat
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •liliumstar
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •I host and use it as my default search on all devices. Bare metal deployment. The maintenance is pretty low, I just run the instance update script from to time.
Results have been worse lately, I think it needs some tuning in regards to weights and what engines are in use.
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Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •(des)mosthenes
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •Suzune
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •Yes. I selfhost it. It's pretty easy. All you need to know is that you occasionally need to merge your config with the original that is getting updated.
If you know how to use nvim diff mode, it's trivial.
alphacyberranger
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •deleted
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •I wish we have a free to use, open source, and privacy respecting search engine that do the crawling and indexing and don’t rely on other search engines.
Maybe we can utilize all selfhosted instances to do the crawling and consolidate it.
Rune Jensen ✅ 🇳🇴
Als Antwort auf deleted • • •openwebsearch.eu/
Getting there :)
Welcome - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
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Als Antwort auf Rune Jensen ✅ 🇳🇴 • • •HotChickenFeet
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Als Antwort auf HotChickenFeet • • •How did I not know about it sooner.
Thank you!!
BonkTheAnnoyed
Als Antwort auf deleted • • •coffelov
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •nfreak
Als Antwort auf coffelov • • •zeitverschreib ⁂
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • •@BonkTheAnnoyed SearXNG has been my main search engine for about three years now, running on a local Yunohost.
Almost no maintenance.
Selfhosted hat dies geteilt.
Drunk & Root
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •papertowels
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •The only annoyance I've had with it is searches will sometimes default to another language, even though I set the language to only return English results.
Also, I've found that the image/map search capabilities are less performant than googles.
But I still use it because the search results are so clean and no-frills.
Karna
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •マリウス
Als Antwort auf BonkTheAnnoyed • • •I have been hosting multiple SearXNG instances, the newest one (xn--gckvb8fzb.com/be-your-own-…) being a private instance for my own community channel, and it has been relatively smooth sailing.
Some niche engines, like e.g. Mojeek seem to be notoriously slow, but that might also depend very much on the VPS that your requests are coming from.
If, however, big engines like Bing or Google are blocking/throttling you, it might be due to your IP/subnet reputation and it might be worth switching your host.
Alternatively, you could overengineer a setup in which you round-robin route your SearXNG request through a number of simultaneously running Wireguard tunnels from a VPN provider to obscure your traffic.
However, if my experience, most VPN providers suffer extremely from Cloudflare and ReCaptcha blocks, hence ymmv.
Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave
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