Lucene Indexing - using a web service

Question

I have an incremental index on a shared hosting server. I would have used a console application to perform the indexing by the hosting provider does not allow console apps on the server.

I am thinking of using a web service to do the indexing (with some queuing mechanism). Is this a good idea? What are the pros/cons or alternatives?

Answer 1

Apache Solr does it all for you.