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RedisToGo is now offering Redis Hosting in AWS US-West-2

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Re: RedisToGo is now offering Redis Hosting in AWS US-West-2

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Post by JonnieCache »

I don't want to be that guy making the pointlessly critical comment, but what is the use case for an in-memory database on the other side of an ethernet link? Even if you're in the same datacenter it's going to be slow, no?

I get that startups need to move fast in order to validate ideas, but redis is hardly a chore to set up.

Either way, congrats on the redundancy.

Re: RedisToGo is now offering Redis Hosting in AWS US-West-2

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Post by benarent »

JonnieCache wrote: post #2

I don't want to be that guy making the pointlessly critical comment, but what is the use case for an in-memory database on the other side of an ethernet link? Even if you're in the same datacenter it's going to be slow, no? I get that startups need to move fast in order to validate ideas, but redis is hardly a chore to set up. Either way, congrats on the redundancy.

Hi Jonnie,

This is a very valid comment, we always recommend having your Redis server as close as possible to your application server. We're following the lead from Heroku, which offered this Alpha feature for Postgress in US-WEST https://status.heroku.com/incidents/460 .

We've been offering custom HA (master, slave setups) for a while. This is the first step towards giving our customers more choice for their availability zones.

Redis 2.6 Sentinel is exciting development and something that we're experimenting with now it's in the latest Redis release.

Feel free to send me any questions to ben@redistogo.com

Re: RedisToGo is now offering Redis Hosting in AWS US-West-2

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Post by adrinavarro »

Kudos wrote: post #6
level09 wrote: post #3

isn't this a bit pricy ? why not just drop a medium VPS/server and put redis on it ?

Because then you're administering your stack components again.

But the premium for having it administered (and backed up, and having support, and the extra stack tools) is a bit too pricy, isn't it?

Re: RedisToGo is now offering Redis Hosting in AWS US-West-2

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Post by Groxx »

JonnieCache wrote: post #2

I don't want to be that guy making the pointlessly critical comment, but what is the use case for an in-memory database on the other side of an ethernet link? Even if you're in the same datacenter it's going to be slow, no? I get that startups need to move fast in order to validate ideas, but redis is hardly a chore to set up. Either way, congrats on the redundancy.

One argument I can see is if you're already on e.g. a small VPS and going up to the next tier is more expensive than moving your redis instance off somewhere else. Or, not specific to this but to the idea in general: moving a resque queue and workers into EC2 to handle widely-varying traffic and faster scaling than ordering more machines at a datacenter. Then redis is just a nice atomic list manager that everything already integrates with.
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