Connecting to Redis on a remote server using sockets

[mobiluckeng]

Hello,

We are using Redis heavily and running 150 Redis server instances on each machine.
We chose to connect to Redis using Unix sockets over TCP sockets because it seems to offer better performances and it allows us to manage many Redis instances.
E.g.: redis-cli -s redis-1234.sock
Now, we need to access Redis instances on a remote server...
Is it possible to do this using Unix sockets? Or do we need to switch back to TCP.

Many thanks in advance!
Olivier

[nicolasff]

Hello,

You can't connect remotely to a Unix socket, no. I think you can use Redis with both a unix socket and a TCP socket, but I'm not sure. You can try it yourself, and contact the Redis user group if you have issues setting this up.

Nicolas

[mobiluckeng]

Hi Nicolas,

Thank you very much for your reply.
We are going to try going back to TCP sockets, but it seems to put a limit on the number of connections/ports we can handle simultaneously.

Cheers,
Olivier