Re: squid - why?
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> we have installed Slink on a box that will be a normal company web
> server. This means will have normal visitors wanting to know about our
> company and maybe some e-commerce going on also.
>
> I chose to install Debian as web server which, after I brought the box
> up, includes the proxy squid (and of course Apache). What I would like
> to know is why I need squid running on this box which will be a normal
> web server with a couple of million hits a months? Will normal users
> vivting our site benfit from this, or can I remove squid?
If i understand correctly, if squid is set up properly then it can reduce
the load on the webserver by caching frequently-used static contant and
serving that up itself. This is especially useful in a firewall setup,
squid could be on a machine outside the firewall to reduce the traffic
through the firewal machine.
There's a faq at http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ.html that could be
useful...
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