[squid-users] Server accelerator options: Squid, apache's built-in web caching or hardware "solutions"

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 I have read about Squid as surrogate server, but apache's httpd
itself has built-in web caching features
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 Would you share with me your experience, if you have tried both
scenarios specially when employing virtual hosts and aliases?
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 To me (and everyone else I guess ;-)) bandwidth is the critical
factor on a server. How important would be serving a page right off
the cache when it still has to go its merry way on a slow connection?
Relating to this issue, something that isn't still clear to me; does
squid serve the static gzipped content returned by the server, which
much browsers can handle?
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 Had anyone actually gauge the performance gain you have while using
squid instead of just using apache?
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 Thanks
 lbrtchx
Received on Sat Jan 12 2008 - 03:45:35 MST