diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1f7f16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+__author__ = 'mike'
+
+from .jobtastic import JobtasticTask
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/jobtastic/__init__.py b/jobtastic/__init__.py
index a2cc903..1ed8b47 100644
--- a/jobtastic/__init__.py
+++ b/jobtastic/__init__.py
@@ -14,4 +14,9 @@
 
 # -eof meta-
 
-from jobtastic.task import JobtasticTask  # NOQA
+# Reserved for default settings
+# works on Ubuntu after ~$ sudo apt-get install libmemcached-dev
+DEFAULT_RESULT_BACKEND = 'cache'
+DEFAULT_CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://127.0.0.1:11211/'
+
+from .task import JobtasticTask  # NOQA
diff --git a/jobtastic/task.py b/jobtastic/task.py
index 3eff83d..ebed1ec 100644
--- a/jobtastic/task.py
+++ b/jobtastic/task.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import warnings
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from hashlib import md5
+from warnings import warn
 
 import psutil
 
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@
     pass  # get_task_logger is new in Celery 3.X
 
 cache = None
+
+
 try:
     # For now, let's just say that if Django exists, we should use it.
     # Otherwise, try Flask. This definitely needs an actual configuration
@@ -35,6 +38,8 @@
     from django.core.cache import cache
     HAS_DJANGO = True
 except ImportError:
+    HAS_DJANGO = False
+    warn('Jobtastic failed to import django cache, looking for celery backend now...')
     try:
         # We should really have an explicitly-defined way of doing this, but
         # for now, let's just use werkzeug Memcached if it exists
@@ -47,14 +52,29 @@
             cache = MemcachedCache(uris)
             HAS_WERKZEUG = True
     except ImportError:
-        pass
+        HAS_WERKZEUG = False
+        warn('Jobtastic failed to use celery backend, trying with default settings now...')
+
+        try:
+            from werkzeug.contrib.cache import MemcachedCache
+            from . import DEFAULT_CACHE_BACKEND, DEFAULT_RESULT_BACKEND
+            if DEFAULT_RESULT_BACKEND == 'cache':
+                uri_str = DEFAULT_CACHE_BACKEND.strip('memcached://')
+                uris = uri_str.split(';')
+                cache = MemcachedCache(uris)
+                HAS_WERKZEUG = True
+                warn('Jobtastic uses default settings now')
+        except Exception, e:
+            HAS_WERKZEUG = False
+            warn("Jobtastic failed to use default settings")
+            raise e
 
 if cache is None:
     raise Exception(
         "Jobtastic requires either Django or Flask + Memcached result backend")
 
 
-from jobtastic.states import PROGRESS  # NOQA
+from .states import PROGRESS  # NOQA
 
 
 @contextmanager
@@ -225,6 +245,7 @@ def apply_async(self, args, kwargs, **options):
         synchronizing the task uuid. Additionally, identical task calls will
         return those results for the next ``cache_duration`` seconds.
         """
+
         self._validate_required_class_vars()
 
         cache_key = self._get_cache_key(**kwargs)