[Wylug-help] Web caching/proxy

[Kevin Barrass]

Think I will setup a small squid/bind cache and see how it fairs up. I
don't want to go all the hog with something like Ipcop as I have Cisco
kit to do the Firewall/IPS stuff :)
Might have a play around with WCCP to do some transparent caching. I'm
not too bothered if there is little performance gain as it will be
interesting to setup and a learning exercise.

Does anyone know what webcaching/proxy'ing ISPs use these days. An ISP I
worked for years ago "makes me sound old" used Netap Netcache but that
was back in the days of dialup.

Cheers all for responses.

Regards

Kev

-----Original Message-----
From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
Sent: 15 May 2008 12:45
Cc: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Web caching/proxy

On Thu, 15 May 2008, James Holden wrote:

> 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.

About 7 years ago we had NTL broadband with a 486 acting as the router.
Running squid made a noticeable difference (but as you say, not a huge
difference), but running a good caching DNS server made quite a
difference.  I was surprised at the time that a good squid setup could
feel faster than local browser cache, but that probably says more about
the browser than anything else.

jh

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