Yeah, 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 (w

Yeah, 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.