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RedisToGo is now offering Redis Hosting in AWS US-West-2
- JonnieCache 14y agoI 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.
- benarent 14y agoHi 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 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
- Groxx 14y agoOne 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.
- smanek 14y agoA disk seek (e.g., if you have more data than RAM and are using virtual memory) might take ~10ms. A packet round trip within the same AZ in EC2 is <0.5ms.
- level09 14y agoisn't this a bit pricy ? why not just drop a medium VPS/server and put redis on it ?
- Kudos 14y agoBecause then you're administering your stack components again.
- adrinavarro 14y agoBut 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?
- antsam 14y agoToo bad our beautiful West Coast is also prone to earthquakes :(
- benarent 14y agoand AWS Dublin... is prone to lighting and rainbow attacks. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/07/lightning-in-dublin-knocks-amazon-microsoft-data-centers-offline/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/07/light...
- kernel_sanders 14y agoHow is security handled for this service?
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoI have the same question; since http://redis.io/topics/security http://redis.io/topics/security mentions "it is not a good idea to expose the Redis instance directly to the internet", even with a strong password, are there specific measures to counter-balance this in the RedisToGo setup? Edit: I've contacted RedisToGo to ask them directly.
- benarent 14y agoWe've put in place the best practices advised by Salvatore. http://redis.io/topics/security http://redis.io/topics/security. `In general, Redis is not optimized for maximum security but for maximum performance and simplicity.` There are few projects building SSL into Redis https://github.com/tritondigital/ssl-redis https://github.com/tritondigital/ssl-redis; but nothing has been fully adopted by the community yet. We offer a VPN, SSH and IP restrictions to bolster security. We currently only offer these to our larger plans, but can offer a custom solution depending on your requirements. - ben@redistogo.com
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoHello Ben - thanks for your reply!