If you want avoid manual compilations of Redis 2.6 on CentOS, you can give a try to <a href="http://powerstack.org">PowerStack</a> repository, which provides RPMs for latest versions of LAMP stack (Apache 2.4, MySQL 5.6, PHP 5.4) and other packages focused on server environments: node.js, memcached, HAproxy, etc. :-)
If you want avoid manual compilations of Redis 2.6 on CentOS, you can give a try to <a href="http://powerstack.org">PowerStack</a> repository, which provides RPMs for latest versions of LAMP stack (Apache 2.4, MySQL 5.6, PHP 5.4) and other packages focused on server environments: node.js, memcached, HAproxy, etc. :-)