Ringer is a Hybrid P2P system. The goal of our architecture is to separate the data and metadata. Clients transfer data directly between each other in a traditional P2P manner. Clients find each other by communicating via a pyramid of metadata servers (MDS). This differs from other P2P systems such as Ivy in while there is no single MDS, there is also not a complete lack of centrality. This approach simplifies implementation and search while avoiding the bottlenecks caused by a single central MDS.