Former Skype, Rackspace Engineers Back HybridCluster in $1M Funding Round

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8 points·lewq··5 comments

Launching our startup today... we raised $1m and are releasing 2.0 of our product.

HybridCluster 2.0 is an integrated suite of storage, replication and web clustering software, and a drop-in replacement for the end-user control panel, too. Our mission is to make the lives of cloud service providers, hosting companies and sysadmins easier through smarter software — so that you can get a good night’s sleep.

Would love to get HN's take on this! Any questions give me a shout...

Cheers, Luke Marsden - CEO, HybridCluster

What's hybrid about it? And what happened to version 1.0?

We've built a bunch of replication and proxying tech into it which enables "hybrid cloud" i.e. cross region/data center deployments of LAMP apps.

http://www.hybridcluster.com/product/system-overview/ has a neat diagram.

1.x has been in operation among hosting companies and web agencies for over a year. 2.0 rocks a lot more though :)

Look pretty cool.

Is this is using LXC Containers ? Are you using MySQL Proxy for in awesome proxy?

Thanks

We're using FreeBSD jails, actually - and AwesomeProxy contains a custom implementation of the MySQL binary protocol. I tried MySQL proxy but it didn't cut it - as it doesn't allow you to fake MySQL authentication and proxy to a different server based on database/username.

Would you like to try it? You can spin it up on EC2 with just your API keys... sign up for the trial at http://www.hybridcluster.com/product/trial and I'll let you in!

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