2010/5/16 Reverse Squid <reversesquid@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hey, > > Using Squid for some time now (reverse) to speed up my web page for my clients. > While I simply purge my HTML files to make Squid come back and take > 'em, can't I just rsync them over to a local apache, instead of Squid? > That way I will even save the first request (all the files will simply > be there), save all the over-head and IMS requests and everything. > I would simply copy my files over upon every update and save them in > the local file system. > I don't even need mod_cache or anything. > > Other than maybe serving cached objects off memory and enabling > cache_peers for faster replies, why would I need Squid? > Once I maintained 200+ Squid boxes for reverse proxies. No squid, but copying files each by each with those number of physics servers? That's a horrible job. Also Squid answers most objects from its memory, that's faster than from disk like Apache does. If your squid box is far away from original server, then using a suitable cache_peer cluster is worth a try. -- Tech support agency in China http://duxieweb.com/
