Shared Memcached Cluster?

Good evening,

not 100% sure this is technically possible, but maybe other folks might aswell be interested in some sort of shared memcached cluster where customers can buy/rent chunks of memory and get his/her own dedicated memcached port(s) only his brightboxes have access to.

Basically I am currently putting memcached powered caching into my rails app and I ‘could’ get a 2nd 1 or 2gb brightbox, but that would mean that I’d have yet another box to manage, whereas all I ‘need’ is a network-connected, chunk of memory.. and I do not want to worry about keeping another box up to date.

Does this make sense? Would others be interested in this kind of service, too?

Cheers,
-J

Hi Jörg.

Actually, I think the main issue here is security. Memcached uses a completely un-authenticated access model so there would be no way to stop someone else with access setting/getting/clearning your cache. Indeed, the only way we could restrict access would be to setup firewall rules in front of memcached and limit who could access the port but that would still allow unfettered access to the whole cache for anyone who signed up.

Depending on your caching needs, you could always run memcached alongside your existing app server. Most standard apps can make do with 64 or 128mb of Memcached RAM quite easily.