> -----Original Message----- > From: Wennie V. Lagmay [mailto:wlagmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 10:27 PM > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [squid-users] Re: Accelarator > > > Hi all, > > At present we are using squid 2.5 stable7 for caching and its working > smooth, now I would like to configure or have an accelarator, but it is not > clear for me if it can really speed up the browsing of the client. CAn you > please enlighten me on how accelarator works, what are the additional > requirements and how can I configure. > > Thank you all in advance, > > wennie Squid acting as an accelerator is meant for caching requests TO one particular website (i.e. Squid handles requests for a computationally intensive website, thereby reducing load on the webserver). As and example, wikipedia.org has several Squid servers caching requests for their dynamic pages. As a caching server, Squid should already be improving your client's experience.
