[Wylug-help] Web caching/proxy

[James Holden]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:38:23AM +0100, Kevin Barrass wrote:
>  
> Hi
> 
> I'm wanting to setup a Proxy/Web cache at home on my ADSL connection
> mainly for personal development as well as to give a small boost to the
> performance of my connection.

Always good to learn about these things :)

But... you probably won't get much of a performance boost unless you
have many users. You need many users before it's likely that the pages
you're requesting has already been accessed recently and is cached.

If it's not, you'll actually end up with more latency.

> I'm more from an appliance point of view been a network guy so was
> looking to buy a second hand "small" Netapp netcache but was also
> thinking of setting up a small squid proxy box, im not personally aware
> of many other major web caches.

Microsoft ISA server? ;-)

(I joke, I joke!)

> Does anyone have any opinions/recommendations on the above or other
> products. Needs to be either free or very cheap via Ebay :)
> If its a software based solution like squid then one that sits on Linux
> would be best for me, IPv6 support would be a bonus but not essential.

No idea about dedicated appliances, but I have a small, fanless system
under my desk that does that sort of thing. It's based on an EPIA
mini-ITX board.

Cheers,

James

> 
> Regards
> Kev
> 
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