Introducing Memcache As A Service!

Posted about 1 month ago

First Memcache as a Service from Gear6 Now Available!

At Blue Box Group, we are a partner in your business. As such, we continually strive to provide you with the best tools to give your site an edge. Nine months ago we partnered with Gear6 to implement their memcached distribution solution as a new way to scale Rails apps and see better site performance overall. The results seen by early adopters have been stellar.

Memcached is a popular, open-source distributed caching system that has gained tremendous traction in data center environments. Dynamic, high-growth web sites face never-ending challenges to maintain performance, support traffic growth, and offer better and deeper user experiences. With new Web 2.0 requirements, database and app loads can grow to levels that can’t be easily sustained. Memcached is designed to offload your database and application servers and, for this reason, is widely used by popular and dynamic sites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr to scale out.

While you can get your own copy of memcached and roll with it, we know first hand that it can be challenging to enhance, manage and scale. Gear6 Memcache as a Service has taken the guess work out of using memcached. Gear6 has hardened their memcached distro, added replication and clustering, optimized memory usage for a smaller footprint, included security and networking controls. Because Gear6 Memcache as a Service serves database and application requests from DRAM, web site performance can be boosted by 100x or more, and read-intensive database loads are slashed. This enhanced, highly-efficient, highly-available Gear6 memcached service means that more – or even all – of your objects can reside in cache, further boosting performance, controlling your costs, enhancing your uptime and pleasing your users.

The Gear6 Web Cache service is fully integrated with the Blue Box Group platform, so you can have seamless management and monitoring abilities in a single offering. Give it a try and let us know what you think!