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I have modest needs from Redis -- basically I want a queue ~1000 items long, under 1MB per item. I could provision a couple of EC2 servers, get Redis going on
by gamache 13y ago
I have modest needs from Redis -- basically I want a queue ~1000 items long, under 1MB per item.
I could provision a couple of EC2 servers, get Redis going on them, set up some sort of monitoring, some failover mechanism, etc. $X/month.
Or I could pay someone $Y/month to give me a Redis server I can use, and not have to care about the rest, so I can spend time worrying about things more relevant to my actual goals.
If $Y is not much more than $X, it's a very easy decision.
- nasalgoat 13y agoIf you have modest needs of it, just run it on the same machine. The whole point of redis is low latency data queries, which running on some third-party service you lose.
- gamache 13y agoThat might be a point of Redis, but it's certainly not the whole point, as I don't care about it but Redis is still useful to me. And again, just because I can do it myself doesn't mean I should. I came into adulthood as a sysadmin. I can take a project from bolting racks into the floor to writing front-end code, but I don't. There are better ways.
- Aqua_Geek 13y ago> just run it on the same machine Sometimes you don't have that option (e.g. Heroku).