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

Thanks for sharing your info with me.

Regards,

Li Xiang

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Brian wrote:

> 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 - 19:27:02 MDT