diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index be881be..d2f40f2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -288,6 +288,12 @@ version = "1.0.75"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a4668cab20f66d8d020e1fbc0ebe47217433c1b6c8f2040faf858554e394ace6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "arc-swap"
+version = "1.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bddcadddf5e9015d310179a59bb28c4d4b9920ad0f11e8e14dbadf654890c9a6"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "askama_escape"
 version = "0.10.3"
@@ -559,7 +565,11 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "35ed6e9d84f0b51a7f52daf1c7d71dd136fd7a3f41a8462b8cdb8c78d920fad4"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 1.4.0",
+ "futures-core",
  "memchr",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio 1.32.0",
+ "tokio-util",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1049,6 +1059,21 @@ version = "0.1.31"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3a471a38ef8ed83cd6e40aa59c1ffe17db6855c18e3604d9c4ed8c08ebc28678"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futures"
+version = "0.3.28"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "23342abe12aba583913b2e62f22225ff9c950774065e4bfb61a19cd9770fec40"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-executor",
+ "futures-io",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "futures-task",
+ "futures-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-channel"
 version = "0.3.28"
@@ -1056,6 +1081,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "955518d47e09b25bbebc7a18df10b81f0c766eaf4c4f1cccef2fca5f2a4fb5f2"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1070,10 +1096,38 @@ version = "0.1.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ab90cde24b3319636588d0c35fe03b1333857621051837ed769faefb4c2162e4"
 dependencies = [
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "num_cpus",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futures-executor"
+version = "0.3.28"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ccecee823288125bd88b4d7f565c9e58e41858e47ab72e8ea2d64e93624386e0"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-task",
+ "futures-util",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "futures-io"
+version = "0.3.28"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4fff74096e71ed47f8e023204cfd0aa1289cd54ae5430a9523be060cdb849964"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "futures-macro"
+version = "0.3.28"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "89ca545a94061b6365f2c7355b4b32bd20df3ff95f02da9329b34ccc3bd6ee72"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2 1.0.66",
+ "quote 1.0.33",
+ "syn 2.0.29",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-sink"
 version = "0.3.28"
@@ -1092,10 +1146,16 @@ version = "0.3.28"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "26b01e40b772d54cf6c6d721c1d1abd0647a0106a12ecaa1c186273392a69533"
 dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
  "futures-core",
+ "futures-io",
+ "futures-macro",
+ "futures-sink",
  "futures-task",
+ "memchr",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "pin-utils",
+ "slab",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1152,7 +1212,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "bytes 0.4.12",
  "fnv",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "http 0.1.21",
  "indexmap",
  "log",
@@ -1270,7 +1330,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6741c859c1b2463a423a1dbce98d418e6c3c3fc720fb0d45528657320920292d"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "http 0.1.21",
  "tokio-buf",
 ]
@@ -1317,7 +1377,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5c843caf6296fc1f93444735205af9ed4e109a539005abb2564ae1d6fad34c52"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "futures-cpupool",
  "h2 0.1.26",
  "http 0.1.21",
@@ -1371,7 +1431,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3a800d6aa50af4b5850b2b0f659625ce9504df908e9733b635720483be26174f"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "hyper 0.12.36",
  "native-tls",
  "tokio-io",
@@ -1721,6 +1781,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "ws2_32-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mlua"
+version = "0.8.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0bb37b0ba91f017aa7ca2b98ef99496827770cd635b4a932a6047c5b4bbe678e"
+dependencies = [
+ "bstr",
+ "cc",
+ "num-traits",
+ "once_cell",
+ "pkg-config",
+ "rustc-hash",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "native-tls"
 version = "0.2.11"
@@ -2075,6 +2149,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "siphasher 0.3.11",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pin-project"
+version = "1.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fda4ed1c6c173e3fc7a83629421152e01d7b1f9b7f65fb301e490e8cfc656422"
+dependencies = [
+ "pin-project-internal",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pin-project-internal"
+version = "1.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4359fd9c9171ec6e8c62926d6faaf553a8dc3f64e1507e76da7911b4f6a04405"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2 1.0.66",
+ "quote 1.0.33",
+ "syn 2.0.29",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project-lite"
 version = "0.2.13"
@@ -2352,12 +2446,21 @@ version = "0.23.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ffd6543a7bc6428396845f6854ccf3d1ae8823816592e2cbe74f20f50f209d02"
 dependencies = [
+ "arc-swap",
+ "async-trait",
+ "bytes 1.4.0",
  "combine",
+ "futures 0.3.28",
+ "futures-util",
  "itoa 1.0.9",
  "percent-encoding 2.3.0",
+ "pin-project-lite",
  "ryu",
  "sha1_smol",
  "socket2 0.4.9",
+ "tokio 1.32.0",
+ "tokio-retry",
+ "tokio-util",
  "url 2.4.1",
 ]
 
@@ -2417,7 +2520,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cookie_store",
  "encoding_rs",
  "flate2",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "http 0.1.21",
  "hyper 0.12.36",
  "hyper-tls 0.3.2",
@@ -2476,36 +2579,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "winreg 0.50.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "rlua"
-version = "0.19.7"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5d33e5ba15c3d43178f283ed5863d4531e292fc0e56fb773f3bea45f18e3a42a"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 1.3.2",
- "bstr",
- "libc",
- "num-traits",
- "rlua-lua54-sys",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "rlua-lua54-sys"
-version = "0.1.6"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7aafabafe1895cb4a2be81a56d7ff3d46bf4b5d2f9cfdbea2ed404cdabe96474"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "libc",
- "pkg-config",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "rustc-demangle"
 version = "0.1.23"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d626bb9dae77e28219937af045c257c28bfd3f69333c512553507f5f9798cb76"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustc-hash"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "08d43f7aa6b08d49f382cde6a7982047c3426db949b1424bc4b7ec9ae12c6ce2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustc_version"
 version = "0.2.3"
@@ -3070,7 +3155,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5a09c0b5bb588872ab2f09afa13ee6e9dac11e10a0ec9e8e3ba39a5a5d530af6"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "mio 0.6.23",
  "num_cpus",
  "tokio-current-thread",
@@ -3109,7 +3194,7 @@ checksum = "8fb220f46c53859a4b7ec083e41dec9778ff0b1851c0942b211edb89e0ccdc46"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12",
  "either",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3118,7 +3203,7 @@ version = "0.1.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b1de0e32a83f131e002238d7ccde18211c0a5397f60cbfffcb112868c2e0e20e"
 dependencies = [
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "tokio-executor",
 ]
 
@@ -3129,7 +3214,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fb2d1b8f4548dbf5e1f7818512e9c406860678f29c300cdf0ebac72d1a3a1671"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-utils 0.7.2",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3139,7 +3224,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "57fc868aae093479e3131e3d165c93b1c7474109d13c90ec0dda2a1bbfff0674"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "log",
 ]
 
@@ -3171,7 +3256,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "09bc590ec4ba8ba87652da2068d150dcada2cfa2e07faae270a5e0409aa51351"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-utils 0.7.2",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "lazy_static",
  "log",
  "mio 0.6.23",
@@ -3183,6 +3268,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-sync",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-retry"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7f57eb36ecbe0fc510036adff84824dd3c24bb781e21bfa67b69d556aa85214f"
+dependencies = [
+ "pin-project",
+ "rand 0.8.5",
+ "tokio 1.32.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-sync"
 version = "0.1.8"
@@ -3190,7 +3286,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "edfe50152bc8164fcc456dab7891fa9bf8beaf01c5ee7e1dd43a397c3cf87dee"
 dependencies = [
  "fnv",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3200,7 +3296,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "98df18ed66e3b72e742f185882a9e201892407957e45fbff8da17ae7a7c51f72"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "iovec",
  "mio 0.6.23",
  "tokio-io",
@@ -3216,7 +3312,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-deque 0.7.4",
  "crossbeam-queue",
  "crossbeam-utils 0.7.2",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "lazy_static",
  "log",
  "num_cpus",
@@ -3231,7 +3327,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "93044f2d313c95ff1cb7809ce9a7a05735b012288a888b62d4434fd58c94f296"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-utils 0.7.2",
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "slab",
  "tokio-executor",
 ]
@@ -3426,7 +3522,7 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b6395efa4784b027708f7451087e647ec73cc74f5d9bc2e418404248d679a230"
 dependencies = [
- "futures",
+ "futures 0.1.31",
  "log",
  "try-lock",
 ]
@@ -3540,15 +3636,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "env_logger",
  "error-stack",
  "fake-useragent",
+ "futures 0.3.28",
  "handlebars",
  "log",
  "md5",
+ "mlua",
  "once_cell",
  "rand 0.8.5",
  "redis",
  "regex",
  "reqwest 0.11.20",
- "rlua",
  "rusty-hook",
  "scraper",
  "serde",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ca01dff..b7199b1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,26 +7,27 @@ repository = "https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx"
 license = "AGPL-3.0"
 
 [dependencies]
-reqwest = {version="0.11.19",features=["json"]}
+reqwest = {version="0.11.20",features=["json"]}
 tokio = {version="1.32.0",features=["full"]}
-serde = {version="1.0.185",features=["derive"]}
+serde = {version="1.0.188",features=["derive"]}
 handlebars = { version = "4.3.7", features = ["dir_source"] }
 scraper = {version="0.17.1"}
-actix-web = {version="4.3.1", features = ["cookies"]}
+actix-web = {version="4.4.0", features = ["cookies"]}
 actix-files = {version="0.6.2"}
 actix-cors = {version="0.6.4"}
 serde_json = {version="1.0.105"}
 fake-useragent = {version="0.1.3"}
 env_logger = {version="0.10.0"}
 log = {version="0.4.20"}
-rlua = {version="0.19.7"}
-redis = {version="0.23.2"}
+mlua = {version="0.8.10",features=["luajit"]}
+redis = {version="0.23.2",features=["tokio-comp","connection-manager"]}
 md5 = {version="0.7.0"}
 rand={version="0.8.5"}
 once_cell = {version="1.18.0"}
 error-stack = {version="0.3.1"}
 async-trait = {version="0.1.73"}
-regex = {version="1.9.3", features=["perf"]}
+regex = {version="1.9.4", features=["perf"]}
+futures = {version="0.3.28"}
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 rusty-hook = "^0.11.2"
diff --git a/src/bin/websurfx.rs b/src/bin/websurfx.rs
index 1f26af4..9aa5b69 100644
--- a/src/bin/websurfx.rs
+++ b/src/bin/websurfx.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 use std::net::TcpListener;
 use websurfx::{config::parser::Config, run};
 
-/// A dhat heap memory profiler 
+/// A dhat heap memory profiler
 #[cfg(feature = "dhat-heap")]
 #[global_allocator]
 static ALLOC: dhat::Alloc = dhat::Alloc;
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     // A dhat heap profiler initialization.
     #[cfg(feature = "dhat-heap")]
     let _profiler = dhat::Profiler::new_heap();
-    
+
     // Initialize the parsed config file.
     let config = Config::parse(false).unwrap();
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index cd83d8a..e76344b 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ use handler::paths::{file_path, FileType};
 pub fn run(listener: TcpListener, config: Config) -> std::io::Result<Server> {
     let mut handlebars: Handlebars = Handlebars::new();
 
-    let public_folder_path: String = file_path(FileType::Theme)?;
+    let public_folder_path: &str = file_path(FileType::Theme)?;
 
     handlebars
         .register_templates_directory(".html", format!("{}/templates", public_folder_path))
diff --git a/src/results/aggregator.rs b/src/results/aggregator.rs
index 3f06ecb..f9bb642 100644
--- a/src/results/aggregator.rs
+++ b/src/results/aggregator.rs
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
     upstream_search_engines: Vec<EngineHandler>,
     request_timeout: u8,
 ) -> Result<SearchResults, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let user_agent: String = random_user_agent();
+    let user_agent: &str = random_user_agent();
 
     // Add a random delay before making the request.
     if random_delay || !debug {
@@ -89,10 +89,9 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
         let (name, search_engine) = engine_handler.into_name_engine();
         names.push(name);
         let query: String = query.clone();
-        let user_agent: String = user_agent.clone();
         tasks.push(tokio::spawn(async move {
             search_engine
-                .results(query, page, user_agent.clone(), request_timeout)
+                .results(query, page, user_agent.to_owned(), request_timeout)
                 .await
         }));
     }
@@ -155,13 +154,13 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
     filter_with_lists(
         &mut result_map,
         &mut blacklist_map,
-        &file_path(FileType::BlockList)?,
+        file_path(FileType::BlockList)?,
     )?;
 
     filter_with_lists(
         &mut blacklist_map,
         &mut result_map,
-        &file_path(FileType::AllowList)?,
+        file_path(FileType::AllowList)?,
     )?;
 
     drop(blacklist_map);
diff --git a/src/server/routes.rs b/src/server/routes.rs
index 8910f8f..f00cced 100644
--- a/src/server/routes.rs
+++ b/src/server/routes.rs
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ async fn results(
     req: HttpRequest,
 ) -> Result<SearchResults, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     //Initialize redis cache connection struct
-    let mut redis_cache = RedisCache::new(config.redis_url.clone())?;
+    let mut redis_cache = RedisCache::new(&config.redis_url, 5).await?;
     // fetch the cached results json.
-    let cached_results_json = redis_cache.cached_json(&url);
+    let cached_results_json = redis_cache.cached_json(&url).await;
     // check if fetched cache results was indeed fetched or it was an error and if so
     // handle the data accordingly.
     match cached_results_json {
@@ -206,7 +206,9 @@ async fn results(
                 }
             };
             results.add_style(config.style.clone());
-            redis_cache.cache_results(serde_json::to_string(&results)?, &url)?;
+            redis_cache
+                .cache_results(&serde_json::to_string(&results)?, &url)
+                .await?;
             Ok(results)
         }
     }