Hey, I'm was referring to third party tools such as cttproxy, zero patch penalty, tc for different routing capabilities and traffic management. On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- > Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE8 > -- Sincerely, Haytham EL-KHOUJA haytham@xxxxxxxxxx
