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...
