Luke Cavanagh 
Using Elasticsearch with the ElasticPress plugin, you can significantly improve website search speed and quality if your website runs WordPress/WooCommerce.
ElasticPress Plugin: How to Use Elasticsearch with WordPress & WooCommerce on a PHP Elasticsearch Host
About the Potentially Slow Default WordPress & WooCommerce Search Engine
The default WordPress search can be very slow and if you are trying to query a number of posts can take forever to return any relevant information. Having a fast and relevant search on your site will help visitors and customers find what they are looking for.
How to Use Elasticsearch on Managed WordPress and Managed WooCommerce Sites
One of the better options to improve site search on a WordPress site, as well as a site running WooCommerce, is to use Elasticsearch for your Nexcess Cloud Account with the ElasticPress plugin.
Elasticsearch Host — What is Elasticsearch?
Elasticsearch is an open source, broadly distributed search engine capable of improving the speed and scalability of search for enterprise-grade websites.
Built on Apache Lucene and developed in Java, Elasticsearch is a very powerful distributed, open-source search and analytics engine.
With Elasticsearch you can store, search, and analyze huge volumes of data in near real-time and give back answers in milliseconds by searching on indices rather than text directly.
Elasticsearch’s primary uses include website search, application search, enterprise search, logging and log analytics, security and business analytics, and infrastructure metrics and container monitoring. Elasticsearch continues to grow in popularity and is the search solution for the majority of websites we use on the Internet.
Elasticsearch Host — Why Use Elasticsearch?
Elasticsearch is very fast, so if search performance is required for your enterprise or website, it is a leading solution to consider. Because is built on top of Apache Lucene, a high-performance text search engine library written in Java, it excels at full-text search.
Elasticsearch is also a near real-time search platform, in that the delay from the time a document is indexed until it becomes searchable is very short — typically a second or less.
Elasticsearch Host — Elasticsearch Solutions on the Nexcess Cloud
How to Use Elasticsearch — What are Nexcess Cloud Containers?
Nexcess Cloud Containers are units of software that can be added to your cloud solution to expand performance, functionality, and management. Containers are lightweight, secure, and external instances that will not take resources from your main cloud solution.
How to Use Elasticsearch — Elasticsearch & Ecommerce Websites on the Nexcess Cloud
Elasticsearch on the Nexcess Cloud is an enterprise, containerized search engine engineered to improve ecommerce product search. You can link your Elasticsearch solution to an installed Kibana instance for in-depth analytics.
How to Use Elasticsearch — Why Use Elasticsearch with the Nexcess Cloud?
Elasticsearch provides an easy, fast, and scalable alternative for merchants looking to improve product search. It quickly indexes an online store’s entire catalog to provide fast and accurate search experiences.
How to Use Elasticsearch — Is It Difficult to Activate Elasticsearch with the Nexcess Cloud?
Activate Elasticsearch with just a few clicks in your Nexcess Client Portal and quick installation and configuration the ElasticPress plugin for WordPress/WooCommerce. All indexing is automatic, allowing your customers near-instant access to the benefits of improved search.
Elasticsearch Solution Price Comparison: Nexcess vs. the Competition
Elasticsearch Host — Nexcess Elasticsearch Container Plans by Size & Resources Included: CPU, RAM & GBs of Storage
Nexcess offers monthly rates for adding on the Elasticsearch Capability via Nexcess Elasticsearch Container Plans staring at $20 a month:
Elasticsearch Host — WPEngine Elasticsearch Capability
WPEngine offers monthly rates for adding on the Elasticsearch Capability starting at $72