Re: [squid-users] benefit for using squid as sever accelerator

There are two major reasons to add an httpd accelerator:
* Reduce expensive connections (Apache, especially with mod_perl, mod_php,
etc) by adding cheap connections.
* Cache slowly changing 'semi-dynamic' requests

Over here, we went with squid for the cheap connections. Currently
(heading into peak time) we have ~30 apache children powering the back end
with ~3000 connections coming into the front end.

        -- Brian

On Thursday 23 August 2001 05:05 am, Li Xiang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking of using squid as the server accelerator of my apache web
> server. Can anyone give me some ideas of the advantages for using squid
> as server accelerator compared to using the apache server alone? Of
> course I know squid can cache some hot objects but I think apache server
> also has similar functions. So how about other aspects? Like how many
> concurrent connections and peak request ratio can squid handle more than
> apache?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Li Xiang
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 13:02:30 MDT