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 Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.
 
+## Server Startup
+
+You must first authenticate before trying to execute commands, to do this run `AUTH <YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE>` (without the `<>`). This should be the same as the password set in the `SERVER_PASSWORD` variable.
+
 ## Minimum RAM warning
 
 It's recommended to have 4gb of RAM for redis