Re: [squid-users] Advantages of Squid

Haytham Khouja wrote:
> Hey,
> I'm was referring to third party tools such as cttproxy, zero patch
> penalty, tc for different routing capabilities and traffic management.

Okay.
TPROXY and ZPH are integrated into the current 2.7+ and upcoming 3.1+
releases.
'tc' I'm not aware of, any pointers where further info can be found?

Amos

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> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> Haytham KHOUJA wrote:
>>> Dear Kumar,
>>> I've been using Squid in my ISP for the past 2 years, and here are the
>>> advantages:
>>> - Getting a super/kickass hardware with Squid costs 10 times less than
>>> a BlueCoat, so if you have the budget of a BlueCoat, you can get
>>> 10xSquids, imagine the things you can do in terms of Load
>>> Balancing/HTPC/ICP/Fail Over so on and so forth.
>>> - In a medium/large ISP (10 000 concurrent to 60 000 concurrent) i
>>> found that 1 machine can handle easily 80-100 Mbit, the more drives
>>> you have on that machine, the more you'll be able to reply fast that's
>>> why i use SAS drives 15 000 RPM. You can also get machines with 16 GB
>>> (or more) of RAM and put all your cache in the RAM, but in this case,
>>> i'll set the largest caching size to be around 1024 KB. Oh and if
>>> you're gonna go above 4GB of RAMs, consider 64bit, actually, it's not
>>> much of a consideration, it's a must.
>>> - You get to learn and know how caching really works, you're not just
>>> configuring a black box from a fancy web page.
>>> - You get to upgrade/patch your system to suit your needs (there are a
>>> few useful patches for Squid out there)
>> Side note:
>> If you care to mention the ones that you find most useful and not already
>> in Squid. We (the developers) would be very interested in knowing what needs
>> adding to make squid an easier install and usage for everybody.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE8
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Amos

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Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE8