Example Redis binds to just 127.0.0.1
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Just a heads up: when you are freshly installing/configuring Redis from source, be sure to comment out "bind 127.0.0.1" if you wish to access Redis from other servers. (Some distributions, such as Debian/Ubuntu, change the default to bind to localhost only.)
Hopefully this change will minimize exposed Redis boxes with minimal impact. (note, memcache is open to the world by default as well.)