Ah yes, this is pretty much what I was asking for, was this added recently? I totally missed this.
Thanks!
Backups arenāt available yet. Weāve been discussing it internally. Were you already using this with Upstash Redis?
I had never used Upstash before, so no. And Iām not storing anything important in there at the moment so itās not a big deal for me. Iām mostly wondering whether or not I could start storing sensitive data at some point 
If it helps, Upstash databases are already āhighly availableā: there are at least two full copies in your database primary region.
It would be great to revisit the pricing a bit. I have several small apps with low usage, but I have to pay for two redises more (20$) than I do pay for a whole fleet of nodes and pg (16$).
Iād be happy with 100Mb instances for 5$ or so.
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This is interesting. I assume that you couldnāt use the 100MB free Redis plan because you can only provision one per organization?
Yes, the UI says I can only have a single 100Mb instance.
What about using the same Redis instance with different databases?
Mr Perham does not recommend it:
Donāt use environment-specific prefixes. Each environment should use a separate Redis database altogether, otherwise all of your environments will share the same retry and scheduled sets and chaos will likely ensue.
In this case, Iām referring to using a different internal Redis database, not namespaces. see Mikeās post about this: Storing Data with Redis | Mike Perham
As as you donāt need different eviction policies for each db, this approach should work.
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Wow, didnāt mind about using different databases, thank you, will try it!
No, it does not work. Looks like Upstash does not allow to have more than 1 database even in 200Mb plan:
āÆ fly redis connect
? Select a database to connect to redis (fra) personal
Proxying local port 16379 to remote [fdaa:0::0:1::6]:6379
127.0.0.1:16379> select 1
(error) ERR Only 0th database is supported! Selected DB: 1
127.0.0.1:16379>
Yes, youāre right - at the moment using namespaces would be the only way.
So weāre getting back to initial question. There should be some option for small apps.
Upstash has plans to support multiple databases, and weāre considering adding either usage-based pricing or smaller plans. No ETA yet though.
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Thatās sad.
I donāt understand what Iām paying 10$ for. For this? I didnāt even get a single timeout in several years with Heroku.
What a shame.
Thatās easy to fix. Our infrastructure connects you through a load balancer. Connections timeout after 60s of inactivity. Just configure your driver to either reconnect on timeout, or send a PING every so often.
Timeouts should actually only happen on idle connections after 24 hours. What is the actual frequency of timeouts youāre seeing right now @rozhok?
Related to the original question: weāll likely soon introduce a pay-as-you-go payment plan for Upstash Redis which would serve your needs. That plan would take into account Sidekiqās busy design and ignore commands with empty replies.
I see youāve lowered prices for redis. Great to see it, thank you!