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Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

Regarding Redis-To-Go: what am I missing about their pricing scheme? $110/mo for 500 megs? A 500M Slicehost slice, which (it seems to me) is 2 commands (curl and make) away from being a redis server, is $38/mo. And it can do other things!

(Seriously: what am I missing?)

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Don't forget:

  - Installing the OS
  - Securing the server
  - Setting up backups
  - Monitoring

None of these are particularly hard, it just depends on how much you value your time to set them up.

I wondered whether that was the value prop, because 80% of that stuff you get "for free" with Slicehost and Linode. Backups, maybe?

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