Re: [SQU] Cobalt CacheRaq vs Traditional

The original CacheRaq is/was a MIPS box. There are two new boxes -- The
CacheRaq 4 and the Cobalt RaQ XTR. These should improve performance greatly.

> Yep. CacheRaq is a MIPs box (also Intel versions, I think), running
> Squid, and a web panel.
>
> Performance of the Cobalt boxes has been quite poor in the past (see the
> IRCache DataComm cacheoff results). There are better buys IMHO, for
> performance and support, in Squid based appliances (ahem--Swell--cough
> cough). And there is nothing stopping you from installing Webmin on a
> standard Squid box to have a nice full featured Web administration panel
> with online help. It's easy to match or beat their performance on your
> own, because it seems they do little performance tweaking.
>
> Merely the opinions of a competing Squid-based appliance vendor...
> Others may feel differently.
>
> Hubbard, Dan wrote:
>
> > Any advice / experience with the Cobalt (now Sun) CacheRaq box vs
> > running a traditional Squid Proxy on Intel w/Linux.
> >
> > From what I understand the CacheRaq is simply a MIPS box running Linux
> > and Squid with a web managment front end.
> >
> > Thanks
>
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> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
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