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Life & fun · October 15, 2020

I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis

I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis launched on October 15, 2020 with 25 votes, #923 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

Thiicket is a serverless alternative to hosted Redis designed for developers who need Redis functionality without managing their own infrastructure. It offers the core capabilities of Redis in a serverless model, eliminating the need for provisioning and maintaining dedicated servers. The product is particularly useful for applications that require fast, in-memory data storage but prefer a fully managed approach. It targets developers and teams looking to simplify their caching and data layer management.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

A managed service should NOT be installing Redis on a server. With Thiicket there's no servers: we're a serverless provider Thiicket is a radically new approach to Redis; typically a managed service provider would provision a server, install Redis on it, and let you worry about the rest. As a consumer, you'd still have to worry about resource contention, distributing keys, clustering, persistence and a whole host of issues that would be the same if you ran Redis yourself With Thiicket our aim is to completely abstract everything away, when you create an API key for Thiicket we do NOT allocate you a server and bill you for the privilege. Rather we distribute each and every one of your keys…from thiicket.com

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