Re: [squid-users] Squid as web page cache for dynamic content

From: <squid3@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:30:55 +1200 (NZST)

> Hello,
>
> I'm totally new to Squid and working for the largest IT news portal in
> Scandinavia. We're looking to replacing our current server side page
> cache environment with a hardware solution (such as Netapp NetCache
> for example). Now would this be possible to do maybe with
> Squid instead?
>
> So I don't want to use Squid for client proxy, only website content
> cache/acceleration and if possible also distribution for streaming
> media (web tv)..
>
> // kimmo
>

Very probably. NetCache and Squid are alternatives to each other in most
areas.
Squid also has an excellent record as a reverse proxy (acclerator) caching
web traffic produced by backend servers so duplicate requests save
processing.

Amos
Received on Wed Jun 20 2007 - 16:30:58 MDT

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