Words by lightbulb432 [Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:16:44AM -0700]: > > What’s the difference between the reverse proxying features of Squid and a > caching product like memcached? > Memcache has nothing to do with proxying. Squid talks http and caches http objects, memcache talks the memcache protocol and caches objects (can be the key/value you want). memcache is not related (directily at least) with http, it is just a cache engine, you have to program around it to turn it into something useful. > > I don’t necessarily mean specific comparisons of both products (e.g. > performance), but rather explanations of what both types of products do. I > understand that there are some large-scale websites out there that make use > of both, so clearly they are better at different things and both have a > place in a given architecture. > Yes. At first Squid is something you put between the cliente and the web server. Memcache is something you put between your web servers and your database/filesystem/whatever, it stays on the backend. -- Jose Celestino ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.msversus.org/ ; http://techp.org/petition/show/1 http://www.vinc17.org/noswpat.en.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- "And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods." -- Thomas D. Pate
