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
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Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE8
