I recently put some effort into making it possible to run and host the system fairly easily[1]. That said, serving basic search data and operating a search engine is two different things. To do more than index a couple of blogs you inevitably need a fairly deep understanding of the system, probably decent hardware, and so on.

But the long term goal is that this is something that's relatively easy to operate and extend.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNwMkenQQ24 (quick install and demo)