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Introducing Redis To Go
- jpeterson 16y agoHave to disagree with this. Redis is dead simple to install and configure out of the box. This seems like a solution to a nonexistent problem.
- mgrouchy 16y agoI would add a seemingly expensive solution to this non-existant problem. It may kind of makes sense for heroku because afaik they don't offer redis support out of the box.
- jackowayed 16y agoYeah, I would definitely consider using the $25 plan with Heroku. The only other real option is to run Redis on its own EC2 instance, which costs $62 minimum (well, once you're sure the thing's sticking around, you could make it a reserved instance I guess). Now, that's a lot more powerful, but if I'm using something that doesn't even need the 100MB of RAM, I might as well save some money and use Redis to Go. Plus you get the added bonus of still not having to worry about any piece of your infrastructure.
- waratuman 16y agoRedis is dead simple, but having another server isn't. While most people can easily handle this, managing systems can often spin out of control. If you are starting a project would you rather handle another server or just have someone else manage it and be done in under a min?
- fictorial 16y agoThere are ways to automate server configuration though. AMIs, Chef, Puppet, even Linode's StackScripts.
- adamilardi 16y agoWouldn't the network latency kill the performance benefits? Redis is also dead simple to setup. The front page is not clear what the $200 time frame is. Per month Per year ... per hour?
- waratuman 16y agoGood point. The site has been updated and the pricing is per month.
- larrywright 16y agoSince you appear to be the developer of this product, this is as good a spot as any to point out that the link to your website in the footer of the blog is broken.
- pierrefar 16y agoAre the prices monthly or annual or one-off or...? And who said Redis was hard to install?
- tedunangst 16y agoSo my server, which is "here", is going to be talking to a redis which is where exactly? "over there"? How do I prevent someone from "somewhere else" from talking to it?
- waratuman 16y agoThe servers are located in EC2, and there is authentication.
- gecko 16y agoEr...a Linode 512, at $20/month, is $5/month cheaper than their smallest plan, and $90 cheaper than the comparable plan. Unless you really, really cannot do a simple tar xf redis.tar.gz cd redis make then I don't understand why on Earth you'd do this.
- waratuman 16y agoIt is cheaper, but I don't think you are running an OS that will only use 12 MB of memory. This also doesn't include backups or system monitoring. And if you are EC2, well this just isn't an option if you are concerned about network latency.
- tghw 16y agoIt's still much cheaper, even if Redis can only use half the available memory. Backups are easy to ship off to S3. If you're on EC2, why not just spin up another instance for Redis at half the price?
- sqrt17 16y agoNetwork latency is not that much of an issue when you have your application in the cloud as well. And I'll only believe claims about backups if the contract contains an enforcable clause that I'm entitled to a pound of the CEO's flesh if/when they lose my data for whatever reason. (Amazon S3 occasionally loses your data when two/three servers fail at once. If they had such a clause, their executive board would probably be short of a leg or maybe two).
- maw 16y agoNetwork latency is not that much of an issue when you have your application in the cloud as well. What?
- qrush 16y agoNice job, I guess plans and getting into the Heroku alpha program nets you more upvotes on HN. (than http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1456431 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1456431) The game is afoot!
- jackowayed 16y agoOh cool, I missed that even though I'm on HN a lot. You do awesome stuff, so I'm excited to see this when it launches.