On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Graham Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > We are currently looking at replacing our Solaris boxes with a flavour of > Linux to run squid with a focus on Red Hat and Ubuntu. I am trying to collect > some evidence to which OS is being used to run squid and why, before we make > a decision. Could you please respond by sending me, or the list, information > on which OS you are using to run squid and any information on why your > decided to run it on that particular platform. > > I am also asking other list for similar information on BIND, Exim, Apache, > etc....... > > Many thanks for any information you may send me. >
I answer this question more based on what you know than what it "runs best on"; from what I've seen, the OS is of secondary importance to the Squid version and tuning. Personally, RHEL or CentOS have worked very well for me when I was running large (1m users) Squid farms, but I have seen Squid run on large clusters with Debian, SuSE, etc. But I was already familiar with RHEL / CentOS going back some years. If your UNIX / Linux admin teams already prefer another distro, probably your best bet is to stick with what they know already. -- -george william herbert [email protected]
