At 15:57 23/08/00 -0300, Fernando Rowies wrote:
>I'm running an Apache web server.
>Can people accesing web pages in my server view more faster
>if I configure squid tu run as a cache?
>Or only if those people configure their browser in a special way?
Yes, you can configure squid as an http accellerator (i.e. a local proxy
for one or more local web servers to be used transparently by remote
clients), but in this mode the major difference it will make is to reduce
the system load on your web server (you should run squid on a seperate box
for best effect), unless the system load on your web server(s) is already
very high and Apache is having trouble serving things up fast enough you
would not notice much improvement. There would still probably be an
improvement, since squid does very efficient cache handling, but it would
be in terms of a couple of milliseconds. I've seen the best results
obtained when a site has a lot of CGI or PHP stuff that requires the server
box to think before tossing out a page, squid can take a lot of load off by
making it un-necessary for the web server to handle static objects
(graphics files, plain html, etc.) and letting it just concentrate on the
dynamic stuff. For an explanation of how to actually make this happen see
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-20.html#what-is-httpd-accelerator
(the preceeding URL should all be entered on one line).
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