Setting up multiple Redis instances on the same server is pretty easy, but if you want to be able to easily start/stop and restart instances, you’ll need to play with the init scripts of redis-server.

I needed this to be able to offer Redis buckets to different customers on a shared platform.

This is how I managed to set up multiple instances on the same server.
Since installing redis-server is out of the scope of this article, I’ll only explain what I did to manage multiple Redis Servers.

* Setting up a new INIT script:

* Paste this into the new redis-server init script:

Once that is done, we need to add multiple config files for our different buckets:

And enter some config settings looking like this:

Creating new instances is easily done by copying this initial conf file and adjusting the params (port, name, pid, savefilename, password,…)

Now, if you want to start/stop or restart all redis instances at the same time, this can be done with the normal service command:

The new init script we create above, will simply index all config instances from /etc/redis/servers and manage those 1 at a time.

Or, if you only want to manage 1 instance at a time, just do something like this for example:

which will restart only the instance running for website www.nicovs.be

Since we use this on a shared environment, we have a provisioning system in place, where our customers can change some settings

This article is based on: Robofirm: Setting up multiple redis instances, but I had to change some configuration to make it work. Anyway, a big thanks to Kirk Madera for pointing me in the right direction!