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Right now the whole thing is still being thought through and being worked on, from a pricing standpoint. Beta testers can store up to 1GB of data, and shouldn't hammer it too hard since it won't be running in a high-end environment.

InnoDB is disabled, and instead TokuDB is the default engine, which is faster than InnoDB and has better recovery times.

To add yourself to the list send an e-mail to office@spheredb.com. Current beta server is located in Chicago.

If there are people eager to start using this quickly, perhaps in order to get rid of their AWS RDS setup in favor of this sort of setup, dedicated instances can be set up, at cheaper prices than what AWS charges for their higher-end instances and better I/O with no virtualization overhead. Whole LAMP setups can be arranged as well if you don't like latency, with very little management required on your end.

Feel free to ask questions or just post your opinions.

After I got really annoyed with current services for backups, their custom programs and limitations, I've started my own 'company' offering this sort of service.

I've designed a page myself over at http://www.royalbackup.com/ where I'm offering the service. I'm not selling small allocations since it would be a hassle to deal with too many customers for a few bucks.

More info is available on the site, and you can e-mail info@royalbackup.com for a free 100mB trial account for 7 days to take it for a spin.

Any opinions or suggestions are more than welcome.

More info: Public service has only been offered since yesterday, but I've had the service running for a while. Current uptime for bishop is >60 days, though it does get taken down from time to time for regular maintenance (security updates and such).