All Mini Development and Development servers are now backed up hourly instead of daily.

Heroku customers may now customize the email address that alerts are sent to using the “Account” tab in the RedisGreen dashboard.

We have updated the charge descriptor for American Express cards from “Stovepipe Studios” to “RedisGreen”. This should make it easier for you to find the RedisGreen charges on your statements.

We’ve made a number of small improvements to our free Resque dashboard recently:

• RedisGreen and RedisMonitor: Improved Resque Scheduler support — you can now manually queue scheduled jobs. Some additional configuration may be needed.
• RedisMonitor: Better handling of slow / unresponsive Redis servers.
• RedisMonitor: Better error handling for invalid authentication.

To get your free Resque dashboard, simply create a new RedisMonitor or build a new RedisGreen server.

RedisGreen now supports PayPal for all accounts. You’ll see a new “PayPal” button on the payment method form when you’re signing up, as well as under the “Account” tab if you’re a current RedisGreen customer. Just click this to link your RedisGreen account with your PayPal account, and all future RedisGreen charges will be billed to your PayPal account.

As always, we also support all major credit cards and debit cards.

Changing the size and features of your RedisGreen servers is getting a new look. Select the Admin panel to quickly migrate your data to a newer, higher-performance server!

We’re introducing a new feature to our web site today, a library of sample Lua scripts for use with Redis. All the code is available from GitHub - contributions welcome!

If you run Resque with a custom namespace or if you use indexed Redis databases, our built-in Resque dashboards now support you. Just click on the “Admin” tab of any RedisGreen server or RedisMonitor and update your settings:

After a thorough round of testing, we’ve flipped the switch to make Redis 2.8 the default on all new RedisGreen servers. Redis 2.8 brings a bevy of great new features and performance improvements to Redis, including the HyperLogLog data structure and the ability to run lexicographic range queries against Sorted Sets. If you want to upgrade your server, just click on the Support button in the RedisGreen dashboard and we’ll be happy to help you out!

Our article on Intermediate Redis got some updates today to cover Redis 2.8. We added some notes on what we’ve seen with HyperLogLog and lexicographical sorting with ZSets.