RE: [squid-users] Squid as HTTP accelerator

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 10:32:21 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Herman (ISTD) wrote:

> Oh, I see .. so we put our squid machine as our front web server. Web
> clients from Internet will talk to squid, and squid will talk to our
> real web server and pass the information to the web clients. In my
> understanding, the squid will cache some data that sometimes web client
> request just fetch the data from squid.

Yes.

> Despite the function describe above, is there any great benefit provided
> by this mode of HTTP Accelerator ? And how relevant is this mode used by
> web publishing nowadays ?

It offloads the web server, giving it more resources to provide content.

If is a simple way of scaling the web site beyond what a single web server
is capable of.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Apr 24 2004 - 02:32:45 MDT

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