On Fri, Jun 06, 2008, Brodsky, Jared S. wrote: > Getting ready to roll out a squid server in my organization after doing > about a month of testing on it on a virtual machine in VMware server. > Is running squid in a virtual environment recommended, or is having a > dedicated box a safer way to go? I'll have about 30 users that hit > YouTube and other streaming media sites throughout the day and I am > hoping to cache a lot of it since many watch the same ones more than > once. I do, however have a box set aside that I can use which is a P4 3 > Ghz w/ 1GB ram and was going to drop in two 10,000 RPM drives for the > cache. I know that the squid wiki says JBOD is preferable, however is > RAID 0 a bad way to go? RAID 0 is fine; losing a disk will have exactly the results that losing one JBOD disk will have in Squid at the moment. The best way to know is to test it out. I ran Squid/Linux under VMWare ESX 3.mumble a while ago for a small LAN (~150 users) w/ NTLM authentication and besides the clock drift issues, things ran quite fine. YMMV, Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
