The official GitHub page for Discourse says “ We use Redis as a cache and for transient data. ”. But Sidekiq, which is a part of Discourse, says “ Many people use Redis as a cache but it’s important that Sidekiq be run against a Redis instance that is not configured as a cache but as a persistent…

In general we try to avoid Redis flushes, but it’s not completely the end of the world if it does get flushed. Worst case, some emails might not get sent such as password resets and users will need to re-request.

Should Redis be configed as a cache server or not?

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Falco (Falco) April 10, 2016, 11:35pm 9

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Should Redis be configed as a cache server or not?

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