what about caching in your setup? this info will surely help you to design your setup. I am using one proxy server and two caching proxy servers and the total number of users in my setup are much more than yours. I would like to ask you one question here as you have done with transparent proxy. How are you dealing with https(port 443) request from your transparent proxy setup? -- Sushil. On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Paras pradhan wrote: > hi: > > Currently i have a network running squid as a transparent proxy server > serving around 500 users. Around 40% of the users ie ( 200 users) use > the network and the performance is good with very very little > problem.. now my network is about to increse and almost 1200 Users > will be using the proxy server. Presenly i am running a PIII Xeon > processor Server with SCSI Hard Drives and 1GB of RAM. Now i need some > suggestions for 1200 users. > > Do i need to: > > Upgrade or Purchase a new server OR use load balancing using 3 or 4 > another servers OR just tune the currnet server for the best > performance. > > What is the best option for my case assuming 50% of my 1200 users(ie > 600) will be using the internet at the same time.. > > > Thanks > Paras. >
