title: Multiple solr instances within Jetty or run Multiple Jetty servers, which is less intensive?
body: <p>I am about to embark upon a new linode VPS server.I currently use both Tomcat and Jetty (on my development server) to serve different Solr, but having read around a bit I realise Tomcat can be quite a resource hog, hence the suggestion for me to use Jetty. I already have a Jetty development server set up with an application in Jetty1/webapps/ROOT/</p>
  
  <p>Here are my questions:</p>
  
  <p>1) Is it better to run 2 solr instances within the same Jetty server</p>
  
  <p>or</p>
  
  <p>2) Should I run two different Jetty servers (port 8080,8081 can both used since these are just for web services)</p>
  
  <p>Which of the above will be less resource intensive?</p>
  
  <p>To be honest, my preference would be 2), to run 2 different jetty servers, because its going to be quite a lot of work to get one Jetty server to run multiple solr instances, since I already have an application running in Jetty1/solr/home and will have to set it up over again, including adapting to multiple instances . There also isnt much in the way of tutorials for this. </p>
  
  <p>Also, I have another Solr instance set up in Tomcat. Can I just copy and paste the index over into Jetty2/solr,will the indexes work as normal, or will i need to re-index them in Jetty?</p>
  
  <p>Cheers</p>
  
  <p>Ke</p>