# \[ANN\] Call for Alpha Users - CloudCache.net

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**Created:** [March 13, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-call-for-alpha-users-cloudcache-net/131824 "2008-03-13T16:46:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![marcbey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marcbey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcbey)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-call-for-alpha-users-cloudcache-net/131824/1 "2008-03-13T16:46:48Z")

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Howdy!

[CloudCache.net](http://CloudCache.net) is seeking alpha users for our new metered service. The  
CloudCache services include:

- Basic memcached capabilities wrapped in a ReSTful API
- Improvements on memcached including the ability to backup,  
reconfigure, restore, and list keys. This allows us to grow our  
memcached  
farm transparently to our users.
- Improved reliability - your keys and values are hashed across our  
memcached farm, so the odds of losing any significant portion of your  
cached  
data are minimized (along with great reliability of EC2 service and  
our  
backup and restore capabilities).
- Indexing for search - unlike lucene, ferret, solr, etc., the  
reverse  
indices are stored in memcached for ultimate performance and  
scalability.
- Search, filtering, and ranking - after pulling the reverse indices  
from memcached, the service uses your rules for ranking, filtering  
(by other  
indices), and pagination.
- Set and Get via url into memcached - great for thumbnails and  
anything else under the conventional 1MB memcached limit.

[CloudCache.net](http://CloudCache.net) is built within the Amazon EC2 cloud, and will ultimately  
be  
provided as a metered service along the lines of S3.

Attributes of alpha users who will be selected:

- AWS/EC2 users are preferred, as the network latency within the  
cloud  
is expected to be better, or at least more controlled and consistent.
- Existing search and perhaps problematic performance
- Pro-ReST and Pro-SOA
- For search, provide access to db (mysql preferred) and your current  
search fields, ranking, filtering, etc. We will help build the  
search web  
service to support your requirements.
- Willingness to provide positive references if/when you have  
positive  
experiences, especially hard metrics showing the before and after  
improvement.

Our commitment to you is that we will not lock you into the service.  
Our  
backup and key listing service gives us the ability to provide you with  
everything you need to migrate out of the service.

If you’re interested in being a [CloudCachet.net](http://CloudCachet.net) alpha user, or if you  
have  
any questions about the alpha program, please send email to  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid .

Thanks for your kind attention,

Marc