Re: [squid-users] Improving caching services for rural area users

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007, Jaime Torres wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working for a rural development project in Lima, Peru (South
> America). We have been using a transparent proxy/caching server for
> several months with great results.
>
> As you may already know/suppose broadband connections are not available
> at rural areas in this country so the bandwidth management is a key
> factor for the users experience in the community telecentres.
>
> I'm looking for a way to drastically improve the caching service so that
> we can have local copies of as many content as we can, even overriding
> HTTP headers and sacrificing some up to date contents/objects. How can
> we force Squid to cache as much as content as possible?

You can fiddle around with refresh_pattern configuration entries to set
explicit caching times.

Adrian
Received on Sun Apr 15 2007 - 08:26:07 MDT