diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b2b3d89..96cede3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ http-address :8080
 # Log level (either debug, info, warning, error)
 log-level info
 # When multiple alerts are grouped together by Alertmanager, they can either be sent
-# each on their own (single mode) or be kept together (multi mode) (either single or multi; default is single)
+# each on their own (single mode) or be kept together (multi mode) (either single or multi; default is multi)
 alert-mode single
 # Optionally protect with HTTP basic authentication
 user webhookUser
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ alertmanager {
 # When the alert-mode is set to single, ntfy-alertmanager will cache each single alert
 # to avoid sending recurrences.
 cache {
-    # The type of cache that will be used (either disabled, memory or redis; default is memory).
+    # The type of cache that will be used (either disabled, memory or redis; default is disabled).
     type memory
     # How long messages stay in the cache for
     duration 24h
diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index f4ae1af..a9312f0 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ func ReadConfig(path string) (*Config, error) {
 	// Set default values
 	config.HTTPAddress = "127.0.0.1:8080"
 	config.LogLevel = "info"
-	config.AlertMode = Single
+	config.AlertMode = Multi
 
-	config.Cache.Type = "memory"
+	config.Cache.Type = "disabled"
 	config.Cache.Duration = time.Hour * 24
 	// memory
 	config.Cache.CleanupInterval = time.Hour