title: Confused about the Azure Redis Connection Limit (Up to X Connections)
body: <p>I'm looking into building some signalR applications in .NET hosted in Azure (Self hosting workers). </p>
  
  <p>I want to scaleOut and setup a Backplane using Azure Redis, however when i've gone to setup a new Redis Cache i've got confused to what the 'Up to X connections' actually means.</p>
  
  <p>For example, the 'CO Basic 250MB Cache' has 'Up to 256 connections' and the 'C1 Standard 1GB Cache' has 'Up to 1,000 connections'</p>
  
  <p>To confirm, can i take 'Up to 256 connections' to mean that i could (In theory) have up to 256 worker threads all pushing SignalR messages around at once ... Or does this mean the total amount of connections (users) from my website that are connected to my SignalR and in turn, pushing messages around the Redis Cache?</p>
  
  <p>Obviously, if it means 256 workers thats fine - But if it means the total number of different connections from my website, then that is a deal breaker</p>
  
  <p>Thanks and sorry if this is a silly question!</p>